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

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1 The push-turn control knobs are set in a toughened glass panel with high visibility luminous indicator discs , graduated in colour from ‘ off ’ to ‘ full on ’ behind windows .
2 A COUPLE who suffered a catalogue of tragedies are set for a second honeymoon in the Austrian mountains .
3 If all outputs are set top the minimum pulse width of 0.75mS , the frame rate will be 14.2mS ( 8 × 0.75mS + 8.2mS ) whilst if all outputs are set to the maximum pulse width of 2.25mS the frame rate will be 26.2mS ( 8 × 2.25mS + 8.2mS ) .
4 His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness .
5 Close to the busy A48 , between Lydney and Aylburton , these beautiful rhododendron and azalea gardens are set in a peaceful lakeland valley .
6 Expectations are set at an early stage : that the therapist can only offer education and advice , and the client is responsible for assimilating and applying this information .
7 The Inner Kingdoms are set within the twilit ring of the Annulii , shielded from contact with the outer world by the mountains and buffer states of the Outer Kingdoms .
8 His sights are set on the British Supercup and British Championship in 1993 , riding an ex-Niall Mackenzie 250 Yamaha , which has been purchased by Charlie Smiley of Carrickfergus .
9 The wages of farm workers are set by the Agricultural Wages Board ( for England and Wales ) .
10 Bold stripes in any one of six colours are set against a crisp white background .
11 Costs are set against an annual Library estimate , currently totalling £500 , of which some £285 has been spent so far this year .
12 On every release , targets are set for the whole sales force by the sales manager or director , in consultation with the marketing division .
13 The flats are set around a spacious courtyard with shops at ground level .
14 Individual limits on emissions of pollutants are set for the 29 coal and oil-fired power stations , and operating conditions and standards are laid out .
15 When the fuselage surfaces , the wings will still be under water — you know how low wings are set on a modern jet .
16 THE BEATLES and other former pop stars are set for a new royalties bonanza under an artistes ' rights deal agreed by the EC yesterday .
17 The Council water charges are set by the Regional Council each year in order to cover the costs of providing a water service to domestic consumers , in this regard separate accounts must be maintained by the Council in respect of water costs and income from the Council water charges .
18 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 .
19 TWO of Ireland 's best known Catholic priests are set for a bitter and unprecedented court war , it was revealed yesterday .
20 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 .
21 the top layer of blocks/copes are set on a suitable mortar bed such as Marshall 's M-fix as suggested by the manufacturer ,
22 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 .
23 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 .
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