Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 2 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
| 3 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 4 | TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties . |
| 5 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 6 | There were many different sorts of trials set for the field-worker ( something noted in their field-work experience by Douglas 1972 and van Maanen 1982 ) , and the apologies other members of the section later gave her because of this policeman 's conduct is proof that these other trials , too , were successfully passed . |
| 7 | The spate of films set during the Vietnam War which reached the screen during the late 1980s highlighted the reluctance with which Hollywood approached the subject for many years . |
| 8 | Negotiations between the government and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) continued during late 1989 and early 1990 over the terms of future structural adjustment and standby facilities , but progress towards an agreement was impeded by the breaching of targets set under the IMF 's monitoring programme . |
| 9 | Another example of a conflict between official and unofficial group norms can be drawn from a situation where a group itself decides to operate a certain level of output over a given time , regardless of targets set by the management in their search for increased efficiency and productivity . |
| 10 | There are three pairs of pads set into the surface of the tube ; one pair set on the top control the forward and backward motion , the second pair mounted on the side at the top control the up and down motion . |
| 11 | Long before this time wooden huts were made in these areas , by primitive peoples , which had domed structures built over square forms supported by means of planks set across the angles of the square thus making it into an octagon . |
| 12 | The Sheep Variable Premium Scheme involves the assessment of live sheep or carcases against standards set by the UK Government and forming part of the EC Sheep meat regime . |
| 13 | He had a wide waistline , iron-grey hair en brosse , a tanned face with smile-lines set round the mouth , a signet ring , gold serpent coiled round bloodstone . |
| 14 | The controls apply only to new oil-burners and the environmental pressure group say they simply bring Europe into line with standards set in the US 13 years ago . |
| 15 | Garrard 's choice is a fine Regency shop-front while Bulgari 's is , as always , a model of sleek modernity , the jewels shown in cases set into the walls like pictures in an art gallery . |
| 16 | In dealing with the surface politics of the moment and with the politics of participation and satisfaction it tends to reproduce the bias of the system under scrutiny because it provides a description couched in terms set by the system itself . |
| 17 | There were statues in niches set in the walls , and here and there faded but interesting tapestries had been hung . |
| 18 | A second reason is to show how recent British security developments are based on precedents set during the containment of the Irish conflict . |
| 19 | The sale will strengthen Standard 's balance sheet and improve its capital ratios , which have recently sunk close to limits set by the Bank of England . |
| 20 | The establishment of the idea that the telling of the truth is thus subject to standards set by the use of a volume which is part history and part fiction , is almost tantamount to condoning the telling of untruths when the ritual is omitted , or at least making it much easier to justify such behaviour . |
| 21 | There are numbers of Latin inscriptions here , from two of which , on stones set into the wall to the left of the doorway , the completion of the porch and the dedication of the church can be dated to 1200 and 1240 respectively . |
| 22 | From their room they can make UK or international calls at rates set by the hotelier , enabling recovery of the cost of the call , together with a service charge . |
| 23 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |