Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The women claimed they were unable to reach output targets set by management and , at the price offered , they were unable to make their ‘ wages ’ . |
| 32 | Trams , however , were taken off the streets of London , in 1935 , and were replaced by trolley-buses — vehicles able to run on electric power by having two arms stretching above their roof to make contact with a pair of overhead cables , instead of the single arm of the tram and the metal rails set in the carriageway of the road along which their route was arranged . |
| 33 | International : German public service workers set for strike |
| 34 | Quiss looked up to see an overhead cable-car system of what looked like lengths of knotted string and bits of chain , running through little metal wheels set in the ceiling and carrying , on small hooks , cups and mugs and plates ( so that was why they had a hole at the edge ) , forks and spoons and knives of every description . |
| 35 | So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 . |
| 36 | Let me tell the right hon. Gentleman what was the test for our new health service reforms set by his hon. Friend the Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) . |
| 37 | Sarah had previously suggested that they should try the effect of Queen Caroline 's ‘ Christmas trees ’ — young fir trees set in tubs and put upon the table or in a window seat and then decked with penny candles . |
| 38 | Here , too , metal reinforcements set in the concrete have rusted because the concrete contained too much calcium chloride . |
| 39 | The mills are also breaking pollution levels set by the local NRAs which WEN claims are inadequate in the first place . |
| 40 | No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection . |
| 41 | Our winning bride and her partner will be heading for Eleuthera , a quiet unspoiled island of rolling green hills dotted with pastel villages of timber houses set amidst gardens of tropical flowers . |
| 42 | Two rounds after the door is opened , the floor between the doors to 76 and 78 retracts and the passage becomes a pit , 4 yards deep , with jagged iron spikes set into the bottom . |
| 43 | From where she stood , working access to the most inner room had been via remote control arms and full-sized plastic window-suits set in the wall with their own flexi-corridors that stretched out behind the deeper the technician moved into the room . |
| 44 | The doctrine of ministerial responsibility is thus a major explanation for the isolation of Whitehall departments , for their inward-looking nature and for their constant emphasis on keeping within the policy bounds set from above . |
| 45 | Elsewhere , buildings were entirely of timber-framed construction , either with their sills set into prepared trenches ( E ) or resting upon the ground surface ( F ) or based upon timber posts set into individual pits ( G ) or in linear trenches ( H ) . |
| 46 | And will you be able to resist desserts such as Black Velvet Pie — a smooth chocolate mousse flavoured with rum and dotted with chocolate chips set on a chocolate biscuit base , topped with creamy mousse and flakes of chocolate ? |
| 47 | The cutting form is a board with steel blades set into it in the desired shape . |
| 48 | Hawthorn and lime trees thickly blocked the canal edge ; every so often big iron rings set in stone lay half hidden , redundant in the long grass . |
| 49 | two apple trees set in the lawn |
| 50 | To ensure that a module satisfies the quality standards set for it . |
| 51 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 52 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 53 | Here the staircase is achieved by sizeable concrete drainage pipes set in a bed of concrete one behind the other , each pipe slightly above the next . |
| 54 | This can be achieved in the modern garden by the use of sizeable concrete drainage pipes set in a bed of concrete one behind the other , each pipe slightly above the next . |
| 55 | Her first glimpse of it was through elaborate iron gates set between two large stone pillars surmounted by rampant lions . |
| 56 | The emission standards set for new vehicles gave due consideration to the technological feasibility and economic cost of compliance by the vehicle manufacturers and the standards which emerged were similar to those already adopted by California . |
| 57 | Small hospitals incinerators do not have to comply with the latest emission standards set by the Department of Environment until 1996 . |
| 58 | A stepwise procedure was used , with the inclusion criteria set at p=0.05 and the exclusion criteria set at p=0.1 . |
| 59 | In the beginning ( 1838 ) , early carriage department officers were mainly selected from those who had experience in the building of road vehicles , and their efforts resembled road coaches set upon a flat railway wagon . |
| 60 | The dashed curves trace the results of a full access frequency load to 100 per cent packing , while the unbroken curves show the effect of adding records of average activity from the packing densities set into each curve . |