Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In more and more grounds , fences and grilles have been built around the ‘ ends ’ and the areas set aside for the visiting supporters , further highlighting the sense of territory . |
| 2 | By making necessary height adjustments to the camel 's feet , the pier would set firmly over the natural irregularities of the foundation . |
| 3 | A MAFF spokesman said that the survey was unnecessary : " Pollution controls are set locally to the nuclear sites . |
| 4 | Counsel 's action of course does not resolve the question whether some or all of these statements ought or ought not to have been disclosed earlier and it will now be convenient to state the accepted procedure with regard to statements , as described in the respondent 's case , and the relevant principles as set forth in the Jamaican authorities . |
| 5 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 6 | I keep sending memos urging them to make a decision now regarding the next one in four year 's time and asking that BBC2 be set aside on the appointed dates for Ryder Cup coverage . |
| 7 | As expenditures on arms decline with the ending of the cold war , there may be more money available for aid , but democratic politics being what they are , few would care to bet on it ; certainly not on any percentage saved being set aside for the developing nations . |
| 8 | The Brazilian Government have recently declared that 94,000 sq kilometres will be set aside for the Yanomami Indians . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the allotment is good and can not be set aside under the above provisions . |
| 10 | It could be conveniently set aside in the changed circumstances after James V 's death , when the real issue became clear . |
| 11 | It is Slothrop who gives one kind of impetus to the novel in his desire to explain the correlation between his erections and the falling of the V-2 rockets on London ( the novel is set mainly in the last months of the Second World War ) . |
| 12 | It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing . |
| 13 | As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 14 | French-speaking cinema managed , though , to make considerable amends with Jean-Jacques Andrien 's Australia , actually a Franco-Belgian-Swiss co-production , and set partly under the bright skies of South Australia but mainly among the mists of the Belgian city of Verviers , where the director was born . |
| 15 | Step through the double doors leading from the Hotel and you enter an exclusive world of leisure , set SPECTACULARLY around the warm waters of the 55 foot pool , complete with special rockpool and waterfall features . |