Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Set in a Mallorcan hotel room on the night of England 's World Cup semi-final against West Germany in 1990 , the action follows both the game and the disruption of Bill and Monica 's marriage . |
| 3 | Set in a quiet Midlands suburb , Geoff Brown 's home has all the style and sophistication of the Georgian era as well as cultural interest inspired by his travels round the world . |
| 4 | Set in the Royal Hunting Park , the Queen 's House is one of the great surviving masterpieces of the seventeenth-century architect , Inigo Jones . |
| 5 | Set in the pretty Lanarkshire town of Biggar the gasworks were the last in Scotland , now preserved for future generations to show how this once thriving industry provided gas for both private homes and street lighting . |
| 6 | Set in the beautiful Cotswold countryside near the village of Broadway , in 1919 Snowshill Manor became the home of Charles Paget Wade and his subsequent eclectic collection of artefacts , including among other things clocks , bicycles , musical instruments and samurai warriors ' armour . |
| 7 | Set on a convenient bus route to Amalfi ( three miles away and also served by the hotel 's mini-bus for a small charge ) there are many tranquil terraces and a cliffside swimming pool reached by private lift . |
| 8 | Set on the main coast road , the hotel is just 10 yards from its own private sandy beach , with bar and waiter service , and has a wonderful shady patio garden looking out onto the pedestrianised heart of the historical centre of Laigueglia . |
| 9 | The stage was set for a nice priority fight . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Widnes ace Jonathan Davies is set for a New Year comeback . |
| 11 | THE BEATLES and other former pop stars are set for a new royalties bonanza under an artistes ' rights deal agreed by the EC yesterday . |
| 12 | With both sides eager for action the stage was set for a full-scale encounter battle . |
| 13 | EMMA Thompson is set for a glittering Hollywood career as she became Britain 's hottest chance to win an Oscar . |
| 14 | THE OVD Scottish Junior Cup is set for an outstanding quarter-final stage following yesterday 's draw which pitched Central League favourites Petershill and holders Auchinleck . |
| 15 | The controversial Mildmay fences posed no problems they could not solve and , eight months in advance , everything is set for an enthralling Boxing Day confrontation in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 16 | On every release , targets are set for the whole sales force by the sales manager or director , in consultation with the marketing division . |
| 17 | These translation states of the coupler were then rotated to align with an arc set through the right-hand arm coupling point . |
| 18 | While it is of course very difficult to fix an offer price several weeks or even months in advance who knows how share prices in general will change in the meantime ? — the table does seem to confirm our earlier claim that , on average , the offer price was set below the free market price . |
| 19 | Yet , such criticism has to be set against a long-term investment programme — including direct job creation — worth four times the value of the federal payroll cuts . |
| 20 | Costs are set against an annual Library estimate , currently totalling £500 , of which some £285 has been spent so far this year . |
| 21 | The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family . |
| 22 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 23 | Once your rollers are in place , set with a light fixing spray for a long-lasting result that has shine without stickiness . |
| 24 | When this pin is held high , the output pins are set into a high impedance state , behaving as though they are , in effect , switched off . |
| 25 | In its place are three buttons set into the right hand cab pillar . |
| 26 | In the beginning ( 1838 ) , early carriage department officers were mainly selected from those who had experience in the building of road vehicles , and their efforts resembled road coaches set upon a flat railway wagon . |
| 27 | Apart from this type of building , attempts had been made in many countries to provide an adequate base for the circular section of the dome so that it could be set upon a square section building . |
| 28 | This Grade 2 Listed Building is set in a rocky cliff face pointing out to sea a little way along the foreshore . |
| 29 | The story of the rise and fall of this great coal port and of the fortunes of the people who lived and worked here is told through a dramatic interpretation set in a simulated dockland environment . |
| 30 | J. Vijayatunga 's novel Grass For My Feet , set in a Low Country village fifteen kilometres from Galle , portrays more typical villagers who were familiar with the proceedings and personalities of the Galle courts . |