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 | their fannies are n't so neatly set in front |
| 7 | Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage . |
| 8 | But he was in his thirties , and already much set in his ways , and perhaps reluctant to make too many changes too quickly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In a confused situation , the demonstrators also apparently set upon army units dispatched to the radio station to arrest the mutineers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They now practically set upon her , pulling off her hat , her coat , and unbuttoning her dress from the back . |
| 18 | The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , union fees are almost invariably set as a constant amount of earnings rather than a proportion . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But then take a hospital series like Casualty which has been quite explicitly set in the context of a decaying health service . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And her plans now were very clearly set in her mind . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The depiction of the Legion itself might not have been truly authentic but what gave Black Legion much of its initial impact was that the story with all its political message and melodrama was very firmly set in a very real community of American working men . |