Example sentences of "is set [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For an artist to travel is to set out on a visual adventure which may or may not end in fulfilment .
2 an accent mark which is set separately from the main character and is then placed either over or under it .
3 The Holiday Inn is set right on the white sandy beach of Batu Ferringhi , about 20 minutes drive from Georgetown .
4 In resisting the sideways forces the daggerboard starts to behave like a sail and a force is set up between the high and low pressure sides of the foil ( F1 ) .
5 If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) .
6 In one form — the earliest is usually attributed to the Boston Consulting Group , USA — a 3 × 3 matrix is set up on the two axes as in Figure 2.4 .
7 As an example , we look at the case in which an initially isothermal column of liquid is set up with a stable salt gradient in it ; the base of the column is then heated .
8 His portable laboratory is set up in a small tent which is unbearably hot , and could well do without the added heat from his bunsen burner .
9 Like Baudelaire in Courbet 's painting of the artist 's studio , Minton is set apart from the central group both compositionally and by his introspection .
10 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 ) .
11 One track in each cylinder is set aside as an embedded overflow area .
12 This large , impressive hotel is set back from the main road in its own grounds , and clients can walk into Going or Ellmau in around 10–15 minutes .
13 Behind the church , which is set back from the main road and screened by trees , a sequestered lane soon passes the large hole of Hurtle Pot .
14 The house is set back from the main road and has wonderful views of the surrounding farmland .
15 It is set back from the main road , has a small shopping centre and typically Italian lakeside cafés , and is linked to the other lake resorts by steamers .
16 Situated about half a mile from the centre of Riva , the Parc Hotel Flora is set back from the main road , next to a highly popular ice-cream parlour under the same management .
17 The hotel has wonderful gardens full of olive trees and is set back from the main lakeside road , about 700 yards from Brenzone .
18 The people of Whitby may be familiar with some of the landmarks in his historical romance The Red which is set there in the 1600s .
19 The consolidated p&l account is set out on the alternative format , with separate columns for continuing and discontinued operations .
20 The current thinking of the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) is set out in a Green Paper published in October 1993 .
21 The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service .
22 A clear example of the ultra vires rule is set out in the following case .
23 Practice as to translation requirements varies greatly ; although the relevant information is set out in the Practical Handbook published by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague conference , which is held by all Central Authorities , other applicants often fall foul of the rules .
24 A foreign lawyer becomes an RFL by going through a process of registration which is set out in the 1990 Act .
25 Make sure the food is set out in an attractive way so that its appearance makes the children excited .
26 ( b ) Formation of regulated consumer credit agreement The consumer credit agreement must contain certain information which is set forth in a prescribed manner laid down by the Consumer Credit ( Agreements ) Regulation 1983 ( SI 1983 No 1553 ) .
27 This takes a similar form to the Arch of Peace and is set off by the extended , arcaded arms that drift along the edge of the square .
28 Here is a passage about a picture by Judy Rifka : ‘ In Square Dress , a dancer , seen from above , is set off against an exuberant field of abstract color patches and architecturally evocative lines and circles .
29 This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks …
30 Elsewhere an only son and brother is setting out into the great world to win a name and place .
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