Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [be] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The park is set in 12 acres of a 156 acre farm and since its opening three seasons ago , it has proved to be one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country . |
| 2 | Moreover , the direction is set by powerful clues or ‘ logics ’ gradually established in the organization which enable subsystems to bound their search for strategies . |
| 3 | The play is set in 1850 and the set reflected good attention to period with well chosen props . |
| 4 | In 1976 the figure was set at 20,000 , and it was expected in that year that the figure would not exceed 15,000 in the following and subsequent years . |
| 5 | A cliff path walk affords views of Burgh Island , to which Agatha Christie escaped to write in a cliff top gazebo — Evil Under the Sun was set on this 26 acre private island . |
| 6 | Life gets even more complicated when the type is set across different widths , or ‘ measures ’ ( look at p 140 of last week 's issue ) . |
| 7 | On the other hand if the strategies of parental involvement are n't thoroughly and frequently reviewed then the scene is set for all sorts of problems to arise . |
| 8 | The scene is set for further dissociative experiences . |
| 9 | The scene was set for Labour to lose ( more than for Thatcher to win ) the election of May 1979 . |
| 10 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
| 11 | And with Quine apparently attracted to Miss Novak , the scene was set for some off-screen highlights . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |
| 13 | Here is a more down to earth example than the ones suggested above : the drama is set in contemporary Britain , in a small rural area by the coast . |
| 14 | The ransom was set at 4 million écus once again , but this time the French were given four months to raise three-quarters of it , which was clearly impossible . |
| 15 | ‘ During wind and rain ’ , in which memories of the past are set against present reality through contrasting images and metres , is one of the greatest of them ; but ‘ The oxen ’ , inspired by his nostalgia for the traditions of Christianity , is perhaps the most popular . |
| 16 | The subject was set upon firm foundations around 1930 by Emmy Noether and van der Waerden using an abstract algebraic approach . |
| 17 | Extracts from the report are set in italic type : salient comments follow , verbatim . |
| 18 | The book was set in Victorian times . |
| 19 | All the dust is set in black rims , it reaches the edges of the paper . |
| 20 | The way was set for much-needed change , but would things change for the better ? |
| 21 | That she achieved it just when the company was set for major expansion , was an accident of timing that Bernard was determined to exploit to the full . |
| 22 | What happens in many of the significant films that emerge after the war is that the claims of the community and the individual are set against each other , bringing together Ealing realism and Gainsborough melodrama in a tremendously fruitful , if brief and explosive , relationship . |
| 23 | The stage was set for some alignment between the individual , a single political authority , and a single territory , culture and language ; a passive patriotism that was defined by the existence of clear enemies abroad . |
| 24 | Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary . |
| 25 | In France such a ceiling is set at 40 LUs in the Zone de Montagne ( 267 sheep ) and 30 LUs ( 200 sheep ) in the Zone de Piedmont . |
| 26 | The Government-imposed safety limit for annual average exposure to Radon in a home is set at 200 becquerels per cubic metre of air . |
| 27 | Before learning starts , every cell in every node is set to 0 or 1 at random . |
| 28 | UNITA concluded its seventh congress on March 17 , having re-elected Jonas Savimbi as its president , and stated that it would sign a ceasefire agreement as soon as a date was set for multiparty elections . |
| 29 | A table was set for two . |
| 30 | A precedent was set in 1337 when the commanders of an army going to Scotland were engaged by contract , but their troops were raised by array . |