Example sentences of "[noun pl] are set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can also choose sealed units that give your windows the small-paned Georgian look , or the appearance of leaded lights in square and diamond formats , with none of the cleaning problems — the glazing bars and lead strips are set in the gap between the outer panes ( as long as you do n't go for a large picture window with this effect — it can look just plain silly ! ) . |
| 2 | Stanza three , the fox 's nose touch twig leaf and its footprints are set into the snow . |
| 3 | Some implements are set with the heads at different angles to make them easier to manoeuvre with one hand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Business parameters are set by the market ; the focus is the customer or client and their demands . |
| 6 | Figure 8 Human skull from a Pre-pottery Neolithic level at Jericho , seventh millennium B.C. The face is plastered and cowrie shells are set in the eye sockets . |
| 7 | Night netting requires that your nets are set between the rabbits ' home ground and their feeding areas . |
| 8 | And stargazers who slavishly read those horoscopes are set for the sign of eternal damnation . |
| 9 | Beside the front doors of the houses at this mining settlement near Peterlee , slates are set into the walls . |
| 10 | I hate to see ‘ Guernica ’ in a museum whose sights are set on the future , having left once and for all its mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen , to prove to the world what it is : an extraordinary composition suffocated by an excess of sentimentality , distorted by the deranged howls of the media . |
| 11 | 1.6 The assessment framework adopted by the Government requires that : ( a ) attainment targets are set for the knowledge , skills , and understanding normally expected at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 ; ( b ) pupils ' performances in relation to attainment targets should be assessed and reported on at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 12 | attainment targets are set for the knowledge , skills and understanding normally expected at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 ; |
| 13 | His initials are set in the cobbles in front of the tower . |
| 14 | This power brings with it the responsibility to ensure that decisions are made and priorities are set upon the basis of the best educational advice available . |
| 15 | Specific policy objectives are set by the government , and put into action by the bank , although the Bank has an important role as adviser to the government on monetary policy matters . |
| 16 | If more than half the parents are fairly well off and eager to expand facilities in their school , they can set levels for school charges which are beyond the means of the poorer parents ( fee levels are set by the government ) . |
| 17 | It appears , although this is not quite clear from the MoS , that they are YTS trainees , whose pay levels are set by the government . |
| 18 | In other words , prices are set at the end of every even period ( 0 , 2 , 4 , and so on ) to cover the next two periods . |
| 19 | er all agricultural prices are set with the B C U and er what we 're er hold on do we just try and organize myself . |
| 20 | But on the whole it is easy to value paintings by Japanese artists as they paint similar subjects , and new prices are set by the dealers ' auction which takes place once a month at the Tokyo Bijutsu Club , of which most big dealers are members . |
| 21 | Because of the need to respect the sensitivities of foreign States , careful limits are set to the power to make orders : |
| 22 | The er , Business Grants Panel share has , has , has now met on a number of occasions , and the three results of its decisions are set in the report . |
| 23 | It is therefore crucial that standards are set by the EEC and that manufacturers , government and retailers should be forced to provide the best technology on the market . |
| 24 | Fees are set by the owners under Acts of Parliament , and vary widely . |
| 25 | Three long rows of chairs are set before the stage , and there are tables with candelabras , goblets and punch bowls ( the glass is cracked and filthy ) . |
| 26 | As different layers are added sequentially we see how the proportion of available land shrinks ( Pl. 10.3 ) ; for instance , when geological criteria are set in the search for a deep repository , 25 per cent of land area remains and the addition of the population density layer reduces this to 24 per cent . |
| 27 | Catch quotas in the open seas are set by the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization , but the EC set its own , higher , quotas in 1986 in response to pressure from the depressed Iberian fishing industry . |
| 28 | Yet these contexts are set by the parameters of political discourse in exactly the same manner as the conceptual vocabulary of academics and practitioners structures their own treatment of the same issues . |
| 29 | One large dome and two smaller ones with twisted columned drums are set over the narthex which has 12 columns to support them inside . |