Example sentences of "[adv] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 2 | FROM THE treasury of BBC moving pictures comes a further production of classic action , all set on English fields , all in colour except the first sequence ( the Oval Test of 1968 ) , all pleasant , positive viewing . |
| 3 | His gloriously coloured plumage is emblazoned with 169 diamonds , 44 sapphires , 31 emeralds , three round rubies and two pear-shaped rubies , all set in eighteen carat gold . |
| 4 | There is a swimming pool with a sun terrace , pool bar , free deckchairs and deckchairs all set in lovely gardens . |
| 5 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the recent history of the DUP , despite journalists ' frequent attempts to portray Paisley as a man sufficiently set on personal power to be willing to compromise to achieve it . |
| 6 | ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins . |
| 7 | Once a curriculum development centre or similar body is established , it naturally sets about developing curricula , usually with some fervour . |
| 8 | Elections , for example , are not decided by those electors whose support for particular parties is relatively fixed , but by those relatively uncommitted individuals whose attitudes and voting choices may not set until nearer polling day . |
| 9 | These standards are normally set with several objectives in mind : |
| 10 | Now , with the Hollywood movie Not Without My Daughter , in which he stars opposite Sally Field , due out later this year , it looks as if he 's finally set for international fame . |
| 11 | The picturesque town of Alberobello offers a stunning day out because it is made up of over 1000 whitewashed ‘ trulli ’ houses , quaintly set in hilly , winding streets which are still regularly crossed by pony traps and carts . |
| 12 | This takes the module programme of each student in turn , finds the best set for each module , and assigns the student to those sets . |
| 13 | The statute of Carlisle is best set in this context . |
| 14 | That is , when a cell divides , the daughter cells may be dissimilar and already set along different developmental pathways , and so no cell-to-cell interactions need be involved . |
| 15 | The table was already set for high tea , with ham , bread and butter and a very yellow cake . |
| 16 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 17 | The charter says quality standards must be explicit and measurable and ‘ not set in such a way as to make black voluntary organisations unable to tender for contracts ’ . |
| 18 | Unflushed toilets are already setting off censor-operated devices in the Environment Ministry building and some of Singapore 's open air sewage centres . |
| 19 | This problem appears in a more or less acute form in many countries whose borders were arbitrarily set by colonial rulers or as the outcome of wars . |
| 20 | He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two . |
| 21 | The same question was usually set in two versions , one multiple choice and one where the pupil had to supply an answer . |
| 22 | The films are always set against glamorous backgrounds , with Matthews offering herself for audience identification as the outsider trying to enter a world that seeks to exclude her . |
| 23 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 24 | The next most significant bit ( bit 1 ) is also set at this stage and these two bits of the accumulator are then written to the PIA lines used as the direction and clock start/stop signals . |
| 25 | It could be forgotten that these limitations are also set by environmental factors . |
| 26 | The status of the SPR will be automatically set to Accepted . |
| 27 | As a relative newcomer , political sociology has made wider claims and has sought to extend the notions of power and politics beyond the confines traditionally set by political science . |
| 28 | In a turnout unofficially set at 59 per cent of the approximately 165,000 registered voters , Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro , a former Supreme Court judge , obtained 73.5 per cent of the votes , while Pereira gained only 26.5 per cent . |
| 29 | Outside my window , the sun slowly set behind mournful evening scenery , fields and bogs , with cows everywhere , sometimes on the road itself . |
| 30 | As Wright Mills observed in his critique , ‘ The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists ’ : ‘ If the members of an academic profession are recruited from similar social contexts and if their backgrounds and careers are relatively similar , there is a tendency for them to be uniformly set for some common perspective ’ . |