Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lit the hurricane lamps set in brass wall-brackets and found a pressure lamp for the dining table . |
| 2 | Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island . |
| 3 | Or , still in New York , there is Peter Yates ' The House On Carroll Street ( Virgin ) , a gripping suspense story set against the background of the McCarthy inquisition . |
| 4 | However , believing this to be the agreement , Jones cancelled a previously scheduled talk in the Brigham Young University physics department set for 8 March , only two days hence . |
| 5 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
| 6 | 8 ( 5 ) WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Woody ( Cheers ) Harrelson and Wesley Snipes star in this buddy movie set in the world of basketball . |
| 7 | The success of the portland blue Jasper range , which was launched last year , has lead to the addition of the Brewster tea set to the collection . |
| 8 | All the rain she needs has fallen on the Queen 's racetrack in the past week to make jockey Pat Eddery set for a much better day than last year . |
| 9 | The table settings would not have disgraced a banquet : fine Baccarat crystal , gold-crested porcelain and solid silver cutlery set on damask cloths . |
| 10 | And here is the author of Communion , with a serial killer thriller set in ecclesiastical circles . |
| 11 | Ministers reiterated the right of Iraq and Kuwait to their export quotas set in November 1989 at 3,140,000 bpd and 1,500,000 respectively [ see pp. 37053 ; 37632 ] . |
| 12 | Old coaching Inn set on site of 14th century jousting ground with Minstrel Gallery bar . |
| 13 | Ask yourself , ‘ What precisely is it I wish my child to say and/or do when I am asking him/her to be good , polite , helpful , kind ? ’ ( or any of those other vague goals parents set for their bemused offspring ) . |
| 14 | The Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern wants the rate for civil legal aid work set at £65-an-hour . |
| 15 | On the little altar to his ancestors beside the mirror , lighted candles stood amidst tiny dishes of fruits , pork , fish and rice , and behind him incense burners and small brass pans of aloe wood set on a low lacquered table sent perfumed smoke drifting in gentle spirals towards the ceiling . |
| 16 | ‘ Take this tray of fruit and nuts through to the dining-room and try to act sensible , ’ Salt said , following Sally with a huge silver dish set with delicate jellies she would n't entrust to anyone else . |
| 17 | The Great Britain scrum-half became only the fourth player in history to score ten tries in a match — equalling team-mate Martin Offiah 's club record set against Leeds in the Premiership semi-final last May . |
| 18 | In part this reflects research priorities set by policy makers at national level ; in part it reflects the relatively weak position of the minority communities themselves ; and of course these two causes are interrelated . |
| 19 | Talks between Yeltsin , Shevardnadze and Abkhazian leader Vladislav Ardzinba set for Oct. 13 were postponed indefinitely when no agreement could be reached on a draft document to be signed by the two sides . |
| 20 | At the last conference , Neil Kinnock set in motion a plan to institute a National Policy Forum , which would meet four times a year , and produce a two-year rolling review of policy to be ( if all went well ) rubber-stamped by the annual conference . |
| 21 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 22 | The gas turbine division owns five additional gas turbine generator sets with a combined power output of 40 MW which are available for lease or resale . |
| 23 | Thus was shared space introduced to Germany , with a new traffic sign indicating a rest and play area , new priorities , changed parking arrangements , speed limits set at walking/running pace and a street design using similar principles and infrastructure to the now familiar array used in the Woonerf So popular have these approaches to residential area layout become that some variant of restraint is now the norm in newly constructed housing areas . |
| 24 | RIOT POLICE SET FOR UDA REVOLT |
| 25 | So , I thought , how about a murder puzzle set in India ? |
| 26 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 27 | In June the government presented its budget for fiscal 1990/91 which projected a total outlay of taka140,000 million with estimated revenue receipts set at just over taka75,627 million and revenue expenditure at taka73,000 million . |
| 28 | If you want K442 you must go to the historic monto set by Lili Kraus and co. on EMI , or the second , somewhat overblown stylistically , Beaux Arts Trio set on Philips ; but it is no masterpiece . |
| 29 | Using the pickup selector set between middle and bridge the two pickups blend very well , and although the sound in this position is usually the weakest , on the EG-1 it 's stronger than you 'd expect and balances favourably with the other positions . |
| 30 | HM SYSTEMS SET FOR PENTIUM AS USER PUTS NOTEBOOK TO THE TRUCK TEST |