Example sentences of "set at [art] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SET AT THE mouth of the mighty River Nile , Cairo is a convenient departure point for safari tours to see the wildlife of the Eastern Sahara Lake District . |
| 2 | She went into the drawing-room , and flung back her veil , for the first time revealing a pair of remarkable green eyes , set at a slant like a cat 's or lynx 's . |
| 3 | Most annuals can be placed straight into the propogator , providing it is set at a temperature within the stated range , but some need to be covered with a polythene bag or sheet of glass . |
| 4 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 5 | A new lobby has been constructed deliberately set at an angle to the older part of the building , as an aid to disguising the ‘ join ’ between the two sections . |
| 6 | I experimented for a while with rudders on drifters , working on the principles of sailing crafts where the vane ( sail ) is set at an angle to the rudder ( submerged stem section ) so that although the wind would blow the vane at the same angle the offset rudder would make the float cut across the surface carrying it out into the lake even though the wind blew along the bank . |
| 7 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 8 | The program begins with the target position ( in steps ) loaded into COUNT and a POINTER Set at the address of the first delay value , ACCST . |
| 9 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |
| 10 | These are the highest within the EC , having been set at the top of the EC recommended range . |
| 11 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 12 | Shaw 's Tabard Inn formed part of the Bedford Park Garden Suburb , a speculative development in the new ‘ Queen Anne Style ’ ; The Tabard , set at the centre of the development , forms part of the ‘ Village Street ’ opposite the Church of St. Michael and All Angels . |
| 13 | Run a stringline from the top of the bank to a post set at the foot of the bank , checking for square . |
| 14 | Bonuses are determined by the Management Development and Remuneration Committee for the achievement of budgeted profit targets and personal objectives which are set at the beginning of the financial year . |
| 15 | HILL FARM HERBS is set at the back of an old stone farmhouse in the Northamptonshire village of Brigstock . |
| 16 | This friendly Club Hotel is set at the edge of a lagoon at the centre of a resort complex offering a range of facilities . |
| 17 | Based on a novel by E M Forster and set at the turn of the century , this is an elaborate and visually handsome period piece . |
| 18 | If it is an even number , then was in fact set two periods earlier and was set at the close of the previous period . |
| 19 | Though set at the time of the Napoleonic wars , its treatment of the Luddite riots is clearly an oblique comment on more topical events . ’ |
| 20 | Surrounded by hills and set at the mouth of the lush Foglia Valley , this is an attractive resort and an interesting town in its own right . |
| 21 | In the burning pages , he imagined his electro-acoustic instruments sparking and self-destructing like a spaceship set at the end of a low-budget science fiction film . |
| 22 | In other words , prices are set at the end of every even period ( 0 , 2 , 4 , and so on ) to cover the next two periods . |
| 23 | Imagine an economy in which the wage rate for half its workers is set at the end of every even period to cover the following two periods , while the wage rate for the other half is set at the end of every odd period , again to cover the following two periods . |
| 24 | Imagine an economy in which the wage rate for half its workers is set at the end of every even period to cover the following two periods , while the wage rate for the other half is set at the end of every odd period , again to cover the following two periods . |
| 25 | If t is odd , then was set at the end of the previous period and was set two periods earlier . |
| 26 | Some further exercises , which include non-cyclical time-paths , are set at the end of the chapter . |
| 27 | A short time later , on the other side , she came to a noticeboard set at the corner of a road which left the main highway . |
| 28 | A complete candidate string is only allowable if the end-of-word flag is set at the node in the tree for the last letter of the string ( see flowchart D2 in Appendix D ) . |