Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One slight disappointment is in the fret finishing : the frets seem properly set into the fingerboard but some of the ends on the treble side are sitting ( or have lifted ) slightly off the fingerboard , allowing the top E to occasionally catch underneath them . |
| 2 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 3 | Its finest episodes are the central ‘ Dirge ’ ( sung by Brian Rayner Cook a little insecurely ) which is a memorial to Parry 's brother- in-law , who died at 45 while this work was being written , and the subsequent chorus ‘ Man , born of desire ’ ( which Holst also set in his Choral Fantasia ) . |
| 4 | Oracle and Sybase have already set in motion plans for parallel-enabled versions of their respective database engines , and other players are expected to follow suit . |
| 5 | In all of this , the Library recognises that it can only advance in the closest possible cooperation and consultation with those organisations , most notably university departments and university libraries , which have already set in place the academic and technological infrastructure to which we hope to make an increasingly useful contribution . |
| 6 | Furthermore , I have also set in motion several of my own initiatives as well as sponsoring the suggestions of a couple of other departments . |
| 7 | These developments have inevitably set in motion yet another of those educational bandwagons which most teachers have by now learned to view with extreme caution . |