Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set between the mighty River Severn and the scenic grace of the River Wye , The Royal Forest of Dean , for centuries the hunting ground of Kings , is rich in customs and traditions . |
| 2 | Set between the main road and the lake front promenade , the hotel is about five minutes walk from Malcesine 's centre . |
| 3 | Set between the shuttered window of the best room and the lower edge of the yard wall , the chamber sank back into the building like a huge stone tunnel . |
| 4 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 5 | The ceremony meant an unscheduled return to work for Christine as she had been off work with a broken hip , but was well on the way to recovery and set for a New Year return . |
| 6 | With Nouveau , Uniplex 's revamped office automation software , set for a first quarter release next year , Uniplex is preparing its resellers and customers for more complex computing environments , like client/server , according to John Humphries , professional services division manager . |
| 7 | HILARY GILES of Dunstable and her husband Charles are all set for a super day out at York today , as guests of the Daily Mirror . |
| 8 | All set for a festive lunch at Grampian Transport in Aberdeen are driver Frank Evans and his colleague Neil Warden , who were being served by CCG 's manager , Isobel Walker . |
| 9 | Cruising Altitude passed the pacemaking Floyd as they crossed the final hurdle and he looked all set for a comfortable victory . |
| 10 | However , at the classroom level there may be specific objectives set for a particular session or activity . |
| 11 | So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 . |
| 12 | In the second release , set for the first quarter of 1994 , comprehensive internetwork management capabilities will be added , enabling the network management system to discover , display and maintain the physical and logical topology of all major network devices automatically . |
| 13 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 14 | STING has a new single , album and dates set for the New Year . |
| 15 | Malaysia 's Industrial Master plan also represents such thinking , though many question whether the goals set for the twelve priority sectors of development strategy can be achieved . |
| 16 | DEC Mips-Ultrix , HP HP-UX , IBM AIX and Silicon Graphics Irix versions are due in January , with Solaris 2. x and DEC AXP-OSF/1 implementations set for the second quarter . |
| 17 | The first model is the Night Hawk 5800 , set for the fourth quarter , upgradable from the 4800 . |
| 18 | Set for the fourth quarter , prices are thought to be in the $200,000 range . |
| 19 | ICL HAILS VIKING — NEW SPARC MODELS SET FOR THE THIRD QUARTER , INTEL BOXES DUE IN JULY |
| 20 | Set amid the creaking staircases and small bedrooms of small English guesthouses , ‘ The Tourist Trap ’ peeps through the keyhole of English respectability into a dimly-lit back room of voyeurism , deception and lies . |
| 21 | Facing it was a broad , red-lacquered screen , the Ywe Lung — the circle of dragons , symbolising the power and authority of the Seven — set like a huge , golden mandala in its centre . |
| 22 | This is the point where a number of difficult areas converge : society 's ambivalence about sexuality and people with learning difficulties ; a tradition of segregation ; a lingering concern about eugenics ; a shameful history of ( enforced ) sterilisation ; a proper concern about vulnerable children ; and their right to due protection from neglect and abuse — set against an increasing recognition that people with learning difficulties should enjoy the same rights to an ordinary life in our society as anyone else , including the rights to be parents . |
| 23 | Set against the verdant tracery of mature trees , and the glinting spread of a glassy lake in the background , the house took on a warm roseate glow in the fading light of the evening sun . |
| 24 | Stephen and Bloom are brought together in the final stages of Ulysses so that at last the space of desperation can be closed , the vertical pull of Stephen 's iron ambition , set against the downward sucking force of Blooms ordinariness . |
| 25 | Set against the neat rationality of these advantages must be the particular difficulties of planning in education . |
| 26 | Set against the enduring strength of the city 's architecture and way of life , the film reflects an attitude that you would recognise even now in Marchmont and the New Town . |
| 27 | Set against the high side-window of the open car and the evening sky , the effect was extraordinary , the portrait , Flavia thought she saw , of Isabella d'Este . |
| 28 | Set against the British Rail 's as yet unapproved plans for a single specially constructed high speed line between the Channel Tunnel and London look rather modest although work is underway to electrify the three main trunk routes between London and Glasgow to take trains at up to 225kph . |
| 29 | Set against the sweeping backdrop of adventure on the high seas , TREASURE ISLAND charts a boy 's search for treasure in a time of danger and piracy . |
| 30 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |