Example sentences of "[noun] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Translated from the original French , the 16 takes of fantasy and fable in Flammes de Pierre are set around the Mont Blanc range which the author knows well . |
| 2 | You can also choose sealed units that give your windows the small-paned Georgian look , or the appearance of leaded lights in square and diamond formats , with none of the cleaning problems — the glazing bars and lead strips are set in the gap between the outer panes ( as long as you do n't go for a large picture window with this effect — it can look just plain silly ! ) . |
| 3 | Policies are set by WACC 's Central Committee , which also allocates financial resources and reviews the programme year by year . |
| 4 | Traditionally , and with good reason , large amounts of text are set in a serifed face ( that 's one with the little tick marks at the ends of the letters ) and headings are set in a typeface that does n't have them ; a sans serif face . |
| 5 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 6 | HCI Clubs are set in spacious grounds and many have their own private beaches . |
| 7 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 8 | What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel : ‘ The fathers eat sour grapes , and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ ? |
| 9 | The visiting of the iniquity of their fathers on to succeeding generations in the Third Commandment , the banning of ‘ he that hath a flat nose ’ , and the writing ‘ the fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ are suggestive of the stigmata of congenital syphilis . |
| 10 | In the little churchyard in Sasbach , by contrast , two inconspicuous marble tablets are set into a wall . |
| 11 | But if the operators are set against discounting it will not prevent the agencies from doing some on their own account . |
| 12 | To begin with , all switches except the inputs are set at random . |
| 13 | Salaries in the U.K. 's public museums and galleries are set by two bodies . |
| 14 | Stanza three , the fox 's nose touch twig leaf and its footprints are set into the snow . |
| 15 | The push-turn control knobs are set in a toughened glass panel with high visibility luminous indicator discs , graduated in colour from ‘ off ’ to ‘ full on ’ behind windows . |
| 16 | However , the zone bits of the right-hand ( least significant ) digit of a numeric field are set to " 10 " for a negative value and to any other pattern ( 00,01 , or 1 I , but usually 1 I ) for a positive value . |
| 17 | As may be seen in Fig. 3.1 the coordinates of the wire element are x' , y' , z' , whereas the coordinates of the point where we wish to determine the magnetic field are set of coordinates . |
| 18 | A COUPLE who suffered a catalogue of tragedies are set for a second honeymoon in the Austrian mountains . |
| 19 | From May , connections between Teesside and King 's Cross will increase from 31 to 37 each weekday and average journey times are set to be cut by 12 minutes to three hours 15 minutes . |
| 20 | Many of the chalets are set on a hillside reached by steps — not ideal for the infirm or very young children . |
| 21 | Songs are set in everyday situations and many listeners appreciate the gritty realism , although others consider the earthiness intolerably shallow . |
| 22 | Some implements are set with the heads at different angles to make them easier to manoeuvre with one hand . |
| 23 | He is right to warn of such dangers , but they are more likely where leading indicators are set in some general , non-rigorous way without carefully developing a model of what is needed , and by when , to improve or maintain each SBU 's competitive strengths . |
| 24 | During a study of the various styles , it became apparent to me that if the back legs are set into the seat rails at an angle , this angle , together with the curvature of the rear legs and backward slope of the chair back can regulate the flair : if the legs are mounted at right angles to the rear seat rail , there would be no flair . |
| 25 | If all outputs are set top the minimum pulse width of 0.75mS , the frame rate will be 14.2mS ( 8 × 0.75mS + 8.2mS ) whilst if all outputs are set to the maximum pulse width of 2.25mS the frame rate will be 26.2mS ( 8 × 2.25mS + 8.2mS ) . |
| 26 | Budget outlays are set at $174.4 billion , a 5% cut in real terms from 1993 — the seventh consecutive real reduction . |
| 27 | Business parameters are set by the market ; the focus is the customer or client and their demands . |
| 28 | We sit on wooden boxes round the heavy tables with their curling iron legs , and because the lollies are set on sticks splintered from firewood you sometimes get a skelf in your mouth as you suck , intent on the Lone Ranger . |
| 29 | His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness . |
| 30 | Usually a number of variables are set at predefined levels and the resulting values of one or more ‘ response ’ variables observed ; this would be the situation in an industrial experiment to study the variation in yield of some product resulting from changing levels of temperature , amount of catalyst , process time , and so on . |