Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world . |
| 2 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 3 | Since the mere association of words will not unambiguously point to meaning , the words need to be set down in a particular arrangement . |
| 4 | The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own , and the curtains drawn aside . |
| 5 | She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine . |
| 6 | She was hazily aware of being set down in a chair , then her head was pushed none too gently between her knees . |
| 7 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
| 8 | His portable laboratory is set up in a small tent which is unbearably hot , and could well do without the added heat from his bunsen burner . |
| 9 | First , the number is set up in a shift register and when the system is ready , it is clocked repeatedly . |
| 10 | Using magnetotelluric survey data supplied by the Brazilian National Oil Company ( PETROBRAS ) , new data-processing and modelling schemes are being set up in a bid to improve the resolution of mapping of the geoelectric horizons of the shale sequences at depths of 2 to 3 kilometres . |
| 11 | This is set up in a very similar way to above , but the advantage of using continuous stationery , is that only the sections for the height of the design will need to be joined together , because we can print the width sections as one continuous piece of paper . |
| 12 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 13 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 14 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 15 | He flicked a switch on the percolator , which was set up in a recess above one of the work-benches , and reached for a fresh mug . |
| 16 | The camera was set up in a growth room . |
| 17 | No links need be set up in a relational database between relations . |
| 18 | The tendency for L to find its own maximum value leads to interesting developments if the initial density distribution is set up in a way that makes it initially larger than this maximum . |
| 19 | A FEARLESS new organisation has been set up in a bid to finally solve the world 's greatest murder mystery the assassination in Dallas of American president John F. Kennedy . |
| 20 | The exhibition was set up in a room housing the work of early nineteenth century local artists , including Francis Danby . |
| 21 | I think actually , you have to be set up in a conversation first . |
| 22 | This was set out in a section headed ‘ Dress and Deportment ’ , and illustrates Foucault 's point ( ibid. ) that in such situations the body is ‘ docile ’ to authoritative orders from above . |
| 23 | THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month . |
| 24 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
| 25 | Beveridge 's proposals were set out in a section of his report entitled ‘ The Problem of Age ’ . |
| 26 | Once suitable terms have been settled and , one hopes , clearly and concisely set out in a signed agreement , you will be in a position to give the job your undivided attention , secure in the knowledge that you have created the right conditions for job survival . |
| 27 | If you have already made an application to the tribunal , perhaps to obviate the risk of missing a crucial time limit should negotiations collapse , the detailed terms might , if it is thought appropriate , be set out in a separate document while you withdraw your claim on form COT 4 . |
| 28 | If an individual 's conduct is thought to justify it , dismissal could be without notice , but generally it should be carried out in accordance with the notice set out in a member of staff 's contract of employment . |
| 29 | The short-term objectives for instruction in online information retrieval , for end-user and intermediaries , are set out in a user-orientated manner in table 3 . |
| 30 | The charter explicitly promised the privatisation of British Rail , detailed plans for which were supposed to be set out in a white paper . |