Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the four was an experienced police frogman , and each of them knew exactly what he was looking for — knew indeed the exact dimensions of the object and the positioning of the three great ruby eyes once set into it . |
| 2 | It was a handsome face , a model 's face , he thought , with its high cheekbones , long , slightly concave nose , wide , full lips and dark , angry eyes deeply set under the strong brows . |
| 3 | Warner Brothers immediately set in motion its own research programme to explore the feasibility of the idea ; it would run for some months before anyone realised it had been an April Fool and abandoned their research . |
| 4 | ‘ Does acupuncture hurt ? ’ asked one marcher , who had his eyes firmly set on a placard on the other wall which read : |
| 5 | The race is also being used by Poland , Mexico , Norway and Denmark as their trials for the Olympic Games and though the field is not so strong at the front , it looks to be a proving ground for the visitors , in an effort to beat times already set by their countrymen to enable them to go to Barcelona . |
| 6 | In ‘ random mode ’ , the time controller will switch an appliance on and off at random intervals during the four ON periods already set for the programme mode . |
| 7 | In the budget on 19 March 1991 the Chancellor announced that there would be extra Government grant to enable the community charge bills originally set by councils to be reduced by £140 for every individual ( or in the case of Wandsworth to reduce the bill to £0 ) . |
| 8 | Community charge reductions are worked out after the bills originally set by councils have been reduced by £140 as explained on page 2 . |
| 9 | No-one was hurt and engineers immediately set to work making temporary repairs to the hull . |
| 10 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 11 | As a relative newcomer , political sociology has made wider claims and has sought to extend the notions of power and politics beyond the confines traditionally set by political science . |
| 12 | When Tommy was interviewed at the time , he made it clear that he was a man with his sights firmly set on the future , and so it is no surprise that in 1991 , Tommy Rodgers is again setting new standards . |
| 13 | Fresco was developed as a portable environment and Linton is thought to have his sights firmly set on Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT for the toolkit . |
| 14 | With his sights firmly set on his own career and the publication of his next work , Gould simply ignored the earthquake rumbling beneath his feet . |
| 15 | Trainer Mark Tompkins is predicting a big future over hurdles for this strapping filly , but in the meantime has his sights firmly set on Doncaster 's £30,000 November Handicap . |
| 16 | The reforms already set in train were either dropped immediately or gradually diluted , and from 1883 a period of intense reaction set in . |
| 17 | Constitutional amendments formally to set in place a multiparty system were still pending , however : they were passed unanimously by the Federal Chamber on Aug. 8 , and it was hoped to secure the necessary ratification by the assemblies of the republics and provinces by Sept. 20 . |
| 18 | However , charges subsequently set by individual local councils were almost without exception in excess of this level , and on March 21 Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that the average actual charge for England had turned out to be £363 ; he blamed this excess principally on the actions of Labour controlled councils ( and announcements on April 3 and 10 listed a total of 21 local authorities which were to be " capped " — i.e. their expenditure limited to a level determined by the central government ) . |
| 19 | Reference can be made to standards usually set by the agency ‘ in cases of this kind ’ , or attention drawn to practice in past cases . |
| 20 | The sighting of Mary Magdalene is affirmed by Peter and John discovering the Empty Tomb , the burial cloths neatly set to one side . |
| 21 | From left : climbing out from Guernsey with a visiting training sailing ship below ; Trislander over Alderney , whose airport may be seen in the background ; the island of Herm on a hazy autumn day , with Sark in the background ; Trislander 's single-pilot-panel — very functional , with mixture knobs oddly set on top |
| 22 | Under the standby arrangement first agreed in March 1990 , the IMF executive board on Nov. 15 approved the drawing of SDR27,400,000 ( US$35,500,000 ) leaving a balance of SDR40,900,000 to be drawn subject to achievement of the performance criteria originally set for March and June 1990 [ for details of Jamaica 's failure to meet these targets and resulting suspension of arrangement see p. 37817 ] . |
| 23 | There is a swimming pool with a sun terrace , pool bar , free deckchairs and deckchairs all set in lovely gardens . |