Example sentences of "[adv] set [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins . |
| 2 | These standards are normally set with several objectives in mind : |
| 3 | This takes the module programme of each student in turn , finds the best set for each module , and assigns the student to those sets . |
| 4 | The statute of Carlisle is best set in this context . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | So also in examinations : a problem is often set upon some point of law that is not covered exactly by authority . |
| 9 | It was known from collocation studies ( see Chapter 4 ) that the information from co-occurrence relations is optimised at a distance of four words , so the window size was provisionally set at this distance . |
| 10 | It can also be made to sound so sharp that any movement of the fretting hand on the strings causes a loud squeak , but even set with this much top there 's still quality to the tone . |
| 11 | Additionally , DCs which are generated as a result of using option 1.1.1 or option 1.1.3 are initially set to this state . |
| 12 | The racial mixture was soon to be sharpened , as the mid-century railway boom got under way , by new waves of immigrants from Ireland , the Forest of Dean , Herefordshire , and Somerset , but already the social , political , and religious pattern of the new South Wales and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire had been firmly set for another century . |
| 13 | He and Sir David accordingly set upon this final crucial lap of their preparations and to witness the unswerving determination with which they persevered in the face of repeated frustrations was a humbling experience ; countless letters and telegrams were dispatched and his lordship himself made three separate trips to Paris within the space of two months . |
| 14 | Or a priest of some unknown religion who strides towards us , implacably set on some atavistic rite ? |
| 15 | Works by Rembrandt , Vermeer , Turner , Reynolds and Gainsborough are beautifully set in this neoclassical house , remodelled by Robert Adam in 1764 . |