Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is not , in fact , one huge divide set between cardboard characters on the one hand and characters in depth on the other . |
| 2 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 3 | Some computers provide several so-called processor modes , distinguished by the allocation of a separate accumulator set to each mode ; one mode ( the problem mode ) is further distinguished by having privileged instructions disabled , while the others are all supervisor modes entered under different interrupt conditions . |
| 4 | This slow , luxuriant movie set in rural , wartime Wales has a lonely , emotionally battered schoolgirl named Elenya — Pascale Delafouge Jones — befriending an injured , shot down German pilot , Klaus Behrendt , hiding out in the woods . |
| 5 | The 35–5- nanometre seventh harmonic they observed breaks the previous record of 38 nanometres for shortest wavelength coherent light set in 1977 by a team at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington using another harmonic-generation technique . |
| 6 | As a little compensation I begged Captain King to let us remove either to Bruny , or to Muscle Bay , which would make very little difference when once the wind set in fair , and it was accordingly settled that at daylight we should sail for Muscle Bay . ’ |
| 7 | 2-week tot set for new heart |
| 8 | David Sole extends his record as Scotland 's captain to 22 matches , three more than the figure set by British Lion Ian McLauchlan . |
| 9 | Where the new season 's races have taken place , all have been on strips of man-made snow set into dun-coloured grass . |
| 10 | The party may have put on a collar and tie but it is still the Labour Party , prone to its old reflexes ( as it reminded us yesterday on defence spending ) , prisoner still of its anachronistic structure , its mind set in 100 years of working-class history . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He pulled up in front of the high iron grille gates barring the entrance to a drive , saw in his headlights a speakphone set into one of the brick pillars . |
| 13 | Here , too , were knick-knacks and glossy magazines stolen from some of the other rooms : a leather belt with a carved brass buckle that shone like gold when polished with a cloth , a brooch set with brilliant red and yellow stones , an airman 's badge , a pen-knife , a fountain pen . |
| 14 | A pretty village Club set amongst colourful gardens and with its own beach of white sand . |
| 15 | The basic equation to describe empty space–time is eqn ( 7.19 ) with the right-hand side set to zero : . |
| 16 | There was no atmosphere of narrow morality in the house — scarcely any evidence of mental activity at all , let alone a moral climate — but on the wall of the living-room was a pictorial chart of ‘ The Ascent to Heaven and the Descent to Hell ’ , snakes-and-ladders style , and on either side of the entrance to the everlasting bonfire were the figures of Venus and Bacchus , the whole chart a vulgar allegory to set beside that Bedfordshire classic , The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 17 | Here some of the assembled company sat watching the sun set in rosy Technicolor behind a jagged peak . |
| 18 | The rudder set at 45 degrees to the vane would make the float cut across the wind or rather from one side of the bath tub to the other . |
| 19 | Essex boy set for life-saving operation |
| 20 | The focal point of this hotel is its fabulous pool and poolside bar set among lovely gardens where you can relax in between visiting the many attractions of the area . |
| 21 | I decided to try the Power Tool in two ways : the first using a stack , with the amp set to full shred ; the second with a Vox AC30 on full tilt , but with the Power Tool bringing down the volume to bedroom level . |
| 22 | WEATHER-beaten Constantinos Kaloude has one of those lived-in faces that could have seen the sun set on 30,000 different horizons . |
| 23 | It 's a five mile long artificial reservoir set among spectacular scenery in the Berwyn Mountains south of Snowdon . |
| 24 | Brain teaser for some Judy Yorke asks parents to try this maths test set for 13 and 14-year-olds |
| 25 | Imagine a hidden picture postcard village set between two fantastic mountains ranges , and you have some idea of why Leogang is one of Austria 's best kept secrets . |
| 26 | The Hotel is a group of bungalows , like a village set among luxuriant vegetation , with quaint alleyways running down to its private sandy beach . |
| 27 | For example , whilst many of the papers published in Scottish Journal of Geology are geochemical in nature , the core set of journals in geochemistry may well not contain it , and so researchers may well choose to publish in the core set for their sub-field , rather than the core set for Scottish geology . |
| 28 | Following its agreements with Maspar Computer Corp and Intel Corp , DEC now has three more conventional massively parallel streams on the go — the Single Instruction-Multiple Data machines that it will build using MasPar 's chip , the Multiple Instruction-Multiple Data machines it plans using Intel 's 80860XP chip and technology , and an Alpha-based massively parallel machine set for 1995 . |
| 29 | We corrected the course on the reception of side echoes , which are clearly identifiable , with the range set to 250 m . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |