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

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1 But as they did so , they unknowingly broke the invisible beam linking two electronic eyes set in the surrounding trees .
2 Relevant costing features in many of the questions set in the Financial Decisions paper at Conversion Course , and it is often these questions that receive the poorest answers .
3 The commitment to a particular body of training : accountants , lawyers , doctors have to sit examinations set by the professional bodies .
4 the small characters set above the normal letters or figures .
5 the small characters set below the normal letters or figures .
6 Although difficult to meet , the consent limits set by the National Rivers Authority are consistent with ICI ; s plans to cut discharges by half by 1995 but call into question the viability of some Teesside plants .
7 Today North West industry meets all the Mercury quality standard and load discharge limits set by the regulatory authorities and the UK fulfils all the requirements of the EC mercury directive .
8 Charming emerald islands set amongst the lapping waves . ’
9 The 1893 Act allowed institutions a Parliamentary grant per pupil , but only if the institution/asylum met the standards set by the periodic visits of Her Majesty 's Inspector , so in order to meet these standards and obtain their grants , schools had to improve on the conditions in which the pupils were taught .
10 The TGAT Report ( DES 1987 ) on testing within the National Curriculum has suggested that parents be helped by having schools ' published test results set against the socio-economic circumstances of the pupils .
11 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 .
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