Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His charm , his little anecdotes , even this scene played in the velvet darkness — all of it had been to answer the challenge she 'd so foolishly set before him .
2 ( I learned from this experience that rigor mortis takes much longer to set in than I had supposed ; quite some time , in fact . )
3 One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads .
4 Such rigidities can be observed in organizations and institutions as well as whole cultures : the small , traditional engineering or textile firm which fails to adapt to the market and goes out of business ; the political party caught between renewal and betrayal ; the institution so deeply set in its ways that it is hardly aware of them .
5 Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands .
6 We want big changes and we want them quickly , but we can not see clearly enough how to set to work .
7 their fannies are n't so neatly set in front
8 Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage .
9 But he was in his thirties , and already much set in his ways , and perhaps reluctant to make too many changes too quickly .
10 Poland 's next general election is not due until 1993 , but there are local ones on May 27th — and meanwhile the government is already well set on the capitalist road .
11 A short way further on is the handsome village of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry , most fetchingly set amidst the hills and so long-drawn-out as to be really two villages , with the river in between them .
12 To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse .
13 The ponderous machinery of the Forest Eyre was once again set in motion — in Berkshire and in Surrey for Windsor Forest , and in Wiltshire , Hampshire and Somerset .
14 At 2.00 p.m. as the doors opened before the flood of Medau girls surging through , the 1979 reunion was once again set in motion ; one thousand tickets sold and every one being used .
15 In a confused situation , the demonstrators also apparently set upon army units dispatched to the radio station to arrest the mutineers .
16 This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick .
17 She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left .
18 They now practically set upon her , pulling off her hat , her coat , and unbuttoning her dress from the back .
19 The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister .
20 And for historically minded exploitation devotees , there is Terror Train ( MGM/UA ) , made in 1980 and one of umpteen contemporaneous movies patterned after Halloween , but with the novelty of being almost wholly set aboard a train .
21 When the powder is mixed with cold water it first of all dissolves to a creamy white paste and then slowly sets to a hard solid .
22 Here Campra made a special feature of a formula Lully used on occasion : the magic/supernatural music is almost always set in the key of VI in relation to a preceding minor key .
23 She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents .
24 However , union fees are almost invariably set as a constant amount of earnings rather than a proportion .
25 Another general constraint that must not be overlooked is , of course , the fact that the scarcity and control of public finance frequently sets limits to policy developments In some cases these limits are quite explicitly set by central government .
26 But then take a hospital series like Casualty which has been quite explicitly set in the context of a decaying health service .
27 Lastly an open door showed him a high square room , almost certainly set under the campanile , which was obviously both the vestry proper and the bell room .
28 This was realism with a vengeance ; a true story had been used to depict a very real penal practice and the whole thing was very deliberately set by the studio in a specific historical context .
29 And her plans now were very clearly set in her mind .
30 But the institutions of the 1970s were too rigidly set within the competing duopoly ( BBC 1 + BBC2 = ITV ) to be able to meet fully the demands made upon them .
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