Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Translated from the original French , the 16 takes of fantasy and fable in Flammes de Pierre are set around the Mont Blanc range which the author knows well .
2 St Gilgen is set on the north west shore of the Wolfgangsee .
3 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 .
4 With 150cm Oppdal is set for the winter .
5 The bid for Rowntree was set in the context of a shift in consumer preference away from ‘ slab ’ bars of chocolate towards ‘ countline ’ products ( individually wrapped chocolate snacks ) — an area in which Rowntree had great strength .
6 Wigan 's exciting 18-year-old Jason Robinson is set for the top .
7 San Babila is set on the ruins of a fourth-century church , and that itself was built on the foundations of a pagan temple to the sun .
8 Orion is setting in the west ; Sirius is out of view , though Procyon and the Twins remain , and Aldebaran is still above the horizon .
9 The weather was wet and chilly and this run underlines the standard that White is setting in the club this year .
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