Example sentences of "set [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she fell in love with a gown set low over the bosom , and unadorned , but for a ribbon or two , in a soft peach that set off her copper tresses . |
| 2 | An insipid winter light dribbled in a thin gruel from a small pane of glass set low in the wall just above the camp bed on which he sprawled . |
| 3 | In the Hadrianic period the tiers of locks disappeared , and hair was simply drawn into a plaited bun set high on the crown of the head . |
| 4 | I knew something about Catalonia but nothing about Andorra , except that it was a tiny independent principality , one of the world 's smallest countries , set high in the eastern Pyrenees . |
| 5 | I completed another tour of the mill and cottage , this time with Nigel in tow , trying to sound as objective as I could , as if I , too , saw mere possibilities , but as our tour progressed I could see that Nigel had warmed to it almost as much as I. He pointed out some ‘ interesting features ’ that I had missed , such as some of the wooden working parts of the mill machinery set high in the plastered walls , and told me what they had originally been used for . |
| 6 | We ca n't deny that the water 's a little colder , but during the summer , the alpine lake set high in the Austrian alps alongside this little village can look like somewhere on the Med . |
| 7 | Fortunately the unbiased historical study of the New Testament , set free from the crippling restrictions of dogmatic assumptions , could once more uncover the heart of the matter and present modern men afresh with the abiding message and enduring essence of Christian faith . |
| 8 | Only an agriculture industry set free within the framework of market forces operating more closely to supply and demand will have a secure and prosperous future . |
| 9 | They have walked through this park in different states of mind and various styles of walking and staggering with Iain sometimes crying for no reason and Andrew 's face set resolute on the path ahead of him . |
| 10 | It was the defence of this social unit that set many of the boundaries to the debates and limited the eventual legislative reform . |
| 11 | The execution of juvenile offenders is extremely rare and at least 72 countries set 18 as the minimum age for the death penalty . |
| 12 | With Rex and Woodchip out of the picture and the forces of darkness set loose upon the land , how can we fail ? |
| 13 | His own fear clammying his T-shirt , Trent imagined the long terror the men would suffer , men with no experience of the sea set adrift in the pitch dark and drizzle with the swell building and the rising thunder of surf breaking on the reef ahead . |
| 14 | There were gales , of course , but the bracken turned the mountainsides to copper , and there were mellow days scattered through it , like summer flotsam set adrift in the waning half of the year . |
| 15 | He set one of the packets to boil and walked back to her . |
| 16 | Martin leapt after it , clawing his way up the face of an ancient tombstone set close against the wall . |