Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain . |
| 32 | Why am I using his work to set alongside the interview extracts ? |
| 33 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 34 | One evening , I sat on the rocks at Land 's End , watching the sun set across the ocean , when I felt a sudden urge to find a standing stone circle which I 'd read about that day . |
| 35 | Forty-five minutes after agreeing to write this I was down on the bridge at Abingdon watching the sun set across the Thames . |
| 36 | Ken , who plays supermarket manager Reg Holdsworth , launched the festive stamp set with the help of schoolchildren at St Paul 's Cathedral , London . |
| 37 | She marched over to the desk set against the wall , and scribbled three chemical formulas on the hotel writing paper before folding it over and giving it to Mike . |
| 38 | But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone . |
| 39 | That day I never wanted to descend , and lingered till the sun set beyond the towers of Torridon . |
| 40 | As the hot sun set beyond the glittering turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean , they would move inside to escape the mosquitoes and other creatures of the night . |
| 41 | The sun set behind the opposite slope . |
| 42 | From Robert 's description of the place I presume that it had once been an attic , for it was small , the ceiling sloped , and there was no window set into the wall . |
| 43 | ‘ From Robert 's description of the place , ’ he read , ‘ I presume that it had once been an attic , for it was small , the ceiling sloped , and there was no window set into the wall . ’ |
| 44 | Patrick was occupying a little room at the top of Prince 's Lodge with a dormer window set in the roof . |
| 45 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 46 | Investment would no longer be subject to an annual ceiling set by the Treasury ( which , for example , is currently stopping BR buying up-to-date Networker trains to help relieve congestion on lines in Kent ) . |
| 47 | Preparing to test an underwater optical fibre cable joint on the 600kV DC test set at the new high voltage laboratory at Southampton University . |
| 48 | The fine tradition of fund raising set by the guild had been continued by the branch , so much so that since October no less than £8,533 has been raised . |
| 49 | The self-catering apartments form their own little village set around the palm-fringed swimming pool . |
| 50 | Thumping good read set around the dissolution of the monasteries . |
| 51 | But The Cutting Edge ( Cert P.G. ; General ) , a sort of Dirty Dancing on ice set in the competitive world of international skating , left me cold . |
| 52 | The program begins with the target position ( in steps ) loaded into COUNT and a POINTER Set at the address of the first delay value , ACCST . |
| 53 | Although it was hardly disputable that a West German contribution to NATO would be invaluable , especially as the other European members did not wish to , or could not , meet the new levels of requirement set by the United States , the American demand caused consternation and an agonising evaluation of its consequences in the capitals of Europe , and nowhere more so than in Paris . |
| 54 | Economists said the growth of money in the economy , known as M0 , grew sharply in March and remains well above the monitoring range set by the Government . |
| 55 | But the broad measure of money in the economy , M4 , fell last month to an annual rate of 3.2 per cent from 3.7 per cent in December — below the 4-8 per cent target range set by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont . |
| 56 | For example , Lord Crowther-Hunt considers that the Queen would be perfectly " justified " in withholding her consent from a bill which sought to abolish the House of Lords even if the government proposing this had secured a mandate through the manifesto set before the people at a general election . |
| 57 | It was not , it seems , by the classical standards of German decadence set in the 1920 , very shocking . |
| 58 | In this case , the role effectively changes from one of service management to one of a franchise operation , with Colleges having the right to market the education product or service in a defined areas , constrained mainly by the overall strategic plan set by the LEA . |
| 59 | His real problem , though , is with the film 's director , Alan Parker , who once made a thriller set against the American black civil rights struggle — with two white heroes . |
| 60 | Leo McKern , Sara Kestelman and Ian Holm star in the BBC Screen Two presentation , The Last Romantics , on Sunday , a powerful story of love and betrayal set in the tranquil world of Cambridge University . |