Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I have thus found the study of pupil deviance a fertile valley for optimism to set beside the forbidding mountain-like permanence of theories of gender reproduction .
2 A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium
3 Such churches were , therefore , like the basilica , rectangular in plan , twice as long as wide and had two or four rows of columns set along the long axis , providing three or five aisles .
4 Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof .
5 Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies .
6 If it is in one of the clinical subjects , graduates normally take Senior House Officer posts and prepare for examinations set by the relevant Royal College or faculty .
7 There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden .
8 The price cuts were in line with conditions set by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The most important thing to check is that the instructors operate to standards set by the Royal Yachting Association , the governing body for the sport .
12 President Franois Mitterrand will spell out the conditions for unification set by the European Community governments to President Gorbachev .
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