Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a study of the various styles , it became apparent to me that if the back legs are set into the seat rails at an angle , this angle , together with the curvature of the rear legs and backward slope of the chair back can regulate the flair : if the legs are mounted at right angles to the rear seat rail , there would be no flair . |
| 2 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 3 | This glorious late medieval home is set in the beautiful Usk valley , midway between Abergavenny and Brecon . |
| 4 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 5 | A large , double bowl sink served by pressure hot and cold fresh water is set in the fiddles peninsula with a trash bin beneath . |
| 6 | The 28-week limit was set in the 1967 Abortion Act , and since then many premature babies born before 28 weeks have survived . |
| 7 | Because of the need to respect the sensitivities of foreign States , careful limits are set to the power to make orders : |
| 8 | Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations . |
| 9 | The present system frequently results in simple cases being set before the High Court while much more complicated issues are being decided by the county courts . |
| 10 | From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland . |
| 11 | To prevent seepage from the soil eroding the bottom part of the mud wall , a layer of fired bricks was set into the wall to separate the mud bricks from the foundation . |
| 12 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 13 | In an offer for sale a fixed price is set for the shares to be offered to the public by an issuing house for the company concerned . |
| 14 | The outer door was set into the lower corner of the left-hand wall . |
| 15 | The rateable value is set by the local valuation office , which is a branch of the Inland Revenue . |
| 16 | It will be recalled from Chapter 3 that the Partnership Act provides that where no definite duration is set for the partnership any partner may " retire " by giving his co-partners notice , whereupon in the absence of any contrary agreement the firm is dissolved . |
| 17 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 18 | The limit between nodular hyperplasia of endocrine ( argyrophil ) cells and carcinoid tumours was set at the size of 0.5 mm according to the classification of Solcia et al . |
| 19 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 20 | Naturally straight , black hair was set at the crown on small curlers then gelled into two different shapes . |
| 21 | Great store was set on the word ‘ training ’ . |
| 22 | Inadequate limits being set on the child 's behaviour , possible reinforcement of the aggression and modelling of aggression , and poor control of emotional reactions were all part of the learning history of these abusing children . |
| 23 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |
| 24 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 25 | It was reported on Sept. 17 that the Federation of European Stock Exchanges had agreed to initiate a shared electronic market information service for the 200-300 largest companies in the new EC equity market , but no firm timetable was set for the move . |
| 26 | An optimum time is set for the course , and penalties awarded if competitors exceed it . |
| 27 | One large dome and two smaller ones with twisted columned drums are set over the narthex which has 12 columns to support them inside . |
| 28 | Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection . |
| 29 | The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be . |
| 30 | Numerous poles were set into the mossy cobbles of the yard , connected at a height of six feet or so by thin cords . |