Example sentences of "set [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once set of findings from the YPLL project included evidence of a concern with personal loneliness and the absence of confidants among a substantial number of adolescents . |
| 2 | This self-evaluation ( which would be undertaken by every member of the school staff ) would then be set against priorities within the school . |
| 3 | This is seen most clearly in the song of Eliot 's Blackshirts , whose bitter irony should be set against remarks concerning the undesirability of too many free-thinking Jews in After Strange Gods . |
| 4 | Using the lantern , Apanage lit candles set in sconces on the wall . |
| 5 | In evolving the final arrangement of elements for The Wealth of Nations the artist began with a series of drawings and models set in relations to the building . |
| 6 | The front of the shop was open to the street , but large blocks of stone set at intervals across the threshold carried rebates for timber uprights , presumably to support the gable or perhaps an upper storey . |
| 7 | The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the agenda of the United Kingdom civil service is set by Ministers of the Crown , whereas the European Commission has the sole right of initiative . |
| 8 | One would also have expected the density fluctuations in such a model to have led to the formation of many more primordial black holes than the upper limit that has been set by observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 9 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 10 | At least 44 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in an ambush set by guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) in the northern district of the island of Mannar on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37965 for ending of brief ceasefire in early January ] . |
| 11 | THE ‘ X ’ FACTOR Here are two examples of involuntary agenda emphasis , the situation where the agenda is set by events beyond the control of politicians . |
| 12 | The Hooligans were also said to hunt in cowardly packs , however , and news reports regularly featured them smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , assaulting staff in pubs and cheap eating-houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners such as Italian ice-cream vendors or ‘ Froggy ’ cafe owners , and setting upon policemen in the streets with savage howls of ‘ Boot ‘ em ! ’ |