Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for historically minded exploitation devotees , there is Terror Train ( MGM/UA ) , made in 1980 and one of umpteen contemporaneous movies patterned after Halloween , but with the novelty of being almost wholly set aboard a train . |
| 2 | A second reason is to show how recent British security developments are based on precedents set during the containment of the Irish conflict . |
| 3 | The novelistic density of Andrien 's film makes the well-meant Canadian picture Bye Bye Blues ( director , Anne Wheeler ) , which touches on somewhat related themes though it is set during the war , seem merely novelettish . |
| 4 | Usually because it has arisen and set during the daylight hours . |
| 5 | The spate of films set during the Vietnam War which reached the screen during the late 1980s highlighted the reluctance with which Hollywood approached the subject for many years . |
| 6 | However , I can tell you that the title is The Life & Times Of Henry Pratt and it is set during the years 1936 to 1953 . |
| 7 | I was fascinated by our shiny mahogany Sobell wireless set as a kid , and would wait hours for Dick Barton to emerge from the back . |
| 8 | Such deposits would normally earn a rate of interest close to the equivalent of the average rate of discount at the most recent Treasury bill tender and would be called in amounts set as a percentage of eligible liabilities . |
| 9 | A specified time should be set as a deadline when outgoing mail should be ready if it is to be despatched that day . |
| 10 | it was agreed that thirty one January would be set as a deadline for recruiting national account execs , pending a salary review |
| 11 | We will usually be treating individual instructions or groups of instructions in terms of the facilities that they control , so it is worth saying a few words here about the instruction set as a whole . |
| 12 | But , it is equally important that the imagined outcome should not be set as a goal ; it is not possible to imagine the unexpected however rich our imaginations , and so the possible pot of gold is used to justify our involvement . |
| 13 | Few ordinary citizens could afford to pay the 300 roubles which Kirov had set as a starting price for the most basic of suits . |
| 14 | We expected that if a task was set as a group task , then it should be done as a group . |
| 15 | The maximum 15 per cent share was set as a form of protection of BTG 's independence , other protection measures include the government 's golden share and the right of UK universities to appoint a director to the BTG board . |
| 16 | The reason for this advice is that quite possibly the question was set as a trap , and if you refrain have avoided it by good luck rather than good management . |
| 17 | The Council of Ministers announced on March 7 that June 12 had been set as the date for multiparty local and provincial elections ( to the assemblées populaires communales and the assemblées populaires de wilayas ) , postponed from December 1989 and then again from March 1990 [ see p. 37218 ] to allow more time for newly-created political parties to prepare their campaigns . |
| 18 | A period of seven years was set as the publication cycle for new editions ; the sixteenth edition thus appeared on time in 1958 . |
| 19 | Editor , — As R Buckland points out , the clinical terms project is set as the foundation of the NHS 's information technology strategy and is supported by professional bodies . |
| 20 | This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing . |
| 21 | He is convinced the necessary seven member states whichever they may be can still meet the criteria for economic convergence which has been set as the minimum to permit a single currency in a majority of member states . |
| 22 | GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 23 | When the Highlanders failed to accept William and Mary in place of James VII of Scotland ( James II of England ) , the last day of 1691 was set as an ultimatum by William III . |
| 24 | FAR FROM BEING PUT OUT TO GRASS , DOS IS SET FOR A FACELIFT . |
| 25 | THE Premier League could be set for a £30 million-plus windfall if negotiations to sell television rights worldwide are concluded this week . |
| 26 | AN OUTSIDER revisiting one of Britain 's great provincial cities — Manchester , Glasgow , Liverpool , Birmingham , or Leeds — after a gap of a quarter-century or so is set for a shock . |
| 27 | It was understood that this concealed differences among EC partners , with France arguing for an EC-Iraq meeting irrespective of the position regarding US-Iraqi contacts , and Italy and Spain prepared to endorse a meeting with Tariq Aziz provided that an eventual date had been set for a Bush-Aziz meeting . |
| 28 | A date has now been set for a Circuit Court Hearing in June of 1993 , almost two years since the date of his dismissal . |
| 29 | If London and the North both win , as expected , then the stage will be nicely set for a north-south shoot-out in their final game at Otley next Saturday . |
| 30 | Both sides in the 15-year civil war , the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government and the United States-backed National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , blamed the other , and no date appeared to have been set for a resumption . |