Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
| 2 | Article 38 is the only specified exception , for it preserves the position that a rule set forth in a treaty can become binding upon a third party as a rule of customary international law . |
| 3 | As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 4 | The address position is formed with the weight set more to the left side , leaning into the slope in order to gain stability and balance . |
| 5 | One such was Nicholas Winton , a young stockbroker set apart from his colleagues by his radical views . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ I said , panic setting seriously in ( where was the nearest hospital ? ) . |
| 7 | He was buried in the graveyard at St Luke 's Church , Whyteleafe , in Airmen 's Corner , a plot set aside for those who served at the nearby Kenley base and at Croydon . |
| 8 | He watched intently as the tiny shutters of tree-bark opened wider and wider , and when they were fully open they revealed a small squarish window set neatly in the curve of the big branch . |
| 9 | People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books . |
| 10 | She remarked how each definable function of the household had a special room set aside for it , for example there were dining rooms , parlours and drawing rooms , and serving pantries , pantries and sculleries . |
| 11 | There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 . |
| 12 | There was a breakfast room set aside for the train party where a piece of the mystery would unravel each morning . |
| 13 | But most students will spend much of their time working in the college library , study centre or some other room set aside for quiet study ( i.e. not the refectory or student union ) . |
| 14 | It was agreed that for the moment one Model 30 , re-allocated from ( 2 ) above , will be provided for pool use by all Associates , to be sited in the room set aside for Associates . |
| 15 | Some Christian Democrat politicians are reportedly involved in a racket in which cash set aside by parliament for earthquake victims in Irpinia was misappropriated . |
| 16 | But good bloodily triumphs at the end of a film made by James Marcus rather like a Warner Brothers gangster picture set incongruously in Soho and gone rather badly off-key . |
| 17 | Clauses 70 to 73 provide for the introduction of the council tax set separately by the regional , islands and district councils in respect of dwellings in their areas . |
| 18 | Which was when the other horse got to Hullabaloo 's quarters , a big , handsome bay , his bit covered in a white froth , his nostrils wide and red , and his eye set fast on the forthcoming obstacle . |
| 19 | It was a typical mode of response by Hoggart , contrasting the cultural solidity of the English pub and its robust pleasures with the contrived artificiality of the ‘ American ’ cafe ; the fantasy world of admass set unfavourably against the down-to-earth character of working-class tradition . |
| 20 | Despite increasing integration into the market , the village remained in large measure set apart from the world outside , regulating its own affairs through customary law under the tutelage of the police . |
| 21 | Despite increasing integration into the market , therefore , the village remained in large measure set apart from the world outside , regulating its own affairs through customary law under the tutelage of the police . |
| 22 | One has the impression that many companies have money set aside for sponsorship , but do n't often get asked . ’ |
| 23 | She did n't have enough money set aside for the simultaneous cost of rent , an unexpectedly high fuel bill and Christmas expenses , so borrowed money to pay : loan instalments added another £12.05 to her weekly outgoings . |
| 24 | Up in the ‘ Fish Tank ’ is an area set aside for the Inlay Operator , still many years away from his grander title of Electronic Effects Designer . |
| 25 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 26 | There is a page set aside for each day which consists of the following : your daily diet sheet some key facts a weight and symptom chart . |
| 27 | Dig over and weed vacant ground set aside for vegetables , being careful to dig up roots of perennial weeds , such as dock . |
| 28 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 29 | It has dedicated its Canadian historical collection to one of the art world 's more radical attempts to engage the spectator : one room mimics a nineteenth-century salon , with scores of paintings crammed one above the other to the advantage of none ; another gallery , devoted to the famed Group of Seven , contains a pew-like bench set directly in front of Tom Thomson 's ‘ West Wind ’ ( a national icon ) and two landscapes by Lauren Harris , rigged with telephones providing a soundtrack on the artists . |
| 30 | If hundreds of thousands of Mickey Mouse fans choose to celebrate their preference together in a small area set aside for them in the north of France , then the rest of the country can breathe a sigh of relief and head somewhere else . |