Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Major and Hurd be able to neutralise the timebomb set by the social chapter amendment ? asks Chris McLaughlin |
| 2 | There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden . |
| 3 | They are comic crime and its cousin , farce crime ; romantic suspense ; historical crime and its near relation , crime set in the immediate past ; and finally , the crime short story . |
| 4 | The sun set behind the opposite slope . |
| 5 | The self-catering apartments form their own little village set around the palm-fringed swimming pool . |
| 6 | But The Cutting Edge ( Cert P.G. ; General ) , a sort of Dirty Dancing on ice set in the competitive world of international skating , left me cold . |
| 7 | Leo McKern , Sara Kestelman and Ian Holm star in the BBC Screen Two presentation , The Last Romantics , on Sunday , a powerful story of love and betrayal set in the tranquil world of Cambridge University . |
| 8 | EVEN if the sun sets on the ailing TV show Eldorado , it will be good news for star Buki Armstrong , the beauty who plays Gerry in the sangria soap opera . |
| 9 | One evening after the kind of soft autumnal day that is an echo of the summer gone , when the sun sets in the western sky to cast great pinks ant reds across its distant clouds , Creggan was peaceful at his stance , dreaming of his own homesite . |
| 10 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 11 | Most of the seminal papers which give rise to paradigm shifts , and the creation of new journals to publish new subjects or combinations of subjects , are first published in the core journal set for the earlier research front , and the clusters which define the new research front may not include the journal which first published the paper which led to its inception . |
| 12 | It sounded like an interesting job — the play was a futuristic drama set in the twenty-first century , and the director said she 'd have a chance to really let her imagination run riot on the styles . |
| 13 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 14 | In announcing the appointment , Collor said Perri 's foremost task would be the implementation of the sustainable development agenda set by the UNCED summit . |
| 15 | Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes . |
| 16 | Saudi Arabia and other members also disagreed over the interpretation of the ‘ marker ’ crude price set at the previous year 's OPEC conference in Bah , with a resolution so widely phrased that each member could do whatever it chose . |
| 17 | The same day Henry Ford paid $8 million for the company , a price set by the presiding judge . |
| 18 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 19 | In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath . |
| 20 | Actions for damages ( as opposed to injunctions ) have not so far figured largely in litigation against individuals caused by industrial action ; the limits to union liability set by the 1982 Act are low in relation to the loss that may be suffered and the very large fines imposed for contempt by disobedience to injunctions have probably been a more powerful sanction . |
| 21 | 20 ( — ) GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS : The superb screen version of David Mamet 's acclaimed play set in the high-pressure world of real-estate salesmen . |
| 22 | His total dose was 109 millirems — well below the recommended level set by the International Commission on Radiological Protection . |
| 23 | Mercury in Liverpool Bay fish presents no real cause for concern to consumers , for the content is well below the limit set by the European Community [ EC ] . |
| 24 | The driver will control his speed via an adjustable governor , up to a limit set by the local road surface . |
| 25 | Xorandor is a tale set in the near future of two twelve-year-old fraternal twins called Jip and Zab who find a talking stone at an old carn in their native Cornwall . |
| 26 | Default interest for VAT underdeclared on returns is the same as the rate set by the Inland Revenue ( see this issue p 129 ) . |
| 27 | Under a poll-tax system , all adults over the age of 18 will pay a flat rate set by the local authority concerned , although there will be rebates for the less well-off . |
| 28 | A whirlwind affair set against the romantic backdrop of the Seville Expo in southern Spain that by the law of averages had n't really stood a chance from the off . |
| 29 | He brushed up my biochemistry , informing me that the long chain fences of fat molecules are antipodean in scale set beside the dry stone walls of mere proteins , and that he himself had it as an ambition to contrive that his entire body should be sheathed in one enormous fat molecule . |
| 30 | The scale set by the Inland Revenue and the law for agents dealing with public authorities is known as Ryde 's Scale , and was amended in 1984 by the ‘ Revised Annex to Ryde 's Scale ’ . |