Example sentences of "[noun pl] be set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Numerous poles were set into the mossy cobbles of the yard , connected at a height of six feet or so by thin cords .
32 New standards were set for the working-class house in terms of space , WC , bathrooms , sunlight and garden space .
33 When this pin is held high , the output pins are set into a high impedance state , behaving as though they are , in effect , switched off .
34 TWO of Ireland 's best known Catholic priests are set for a bitter and unprecedented court war , it was revealed yesterday .
35 Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu .
36 the top layer of blocks/copes are set on a suitable mortar bed such as Marshall 's M-fix as suggested by the manufacturer ,
37 The invisible setting — a technique by which the stones are set in an unbroken mosaic of colour seemingly independent of metal support — was introduced by Van Cleef in 1937 .
38 Among many-celled animals , various types of worm and some shellfish have a similar arrangement , but the pigment-backed light-sensitive cells are set in a little cup .
39 Guerrillas is set in an imaginary Caribbean country , whose capital city is by the sea .
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