Example sentences of "set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The novelistic density of Andrien 's film makes the well-meant Canadian picture Bye Bye Blues ( director , Anne Wheeler ) , which touches on somewhat related themes though it is set during the war , seem merely novelettish . |
| 3 | STRANGELY , THE climax of the Dollars trilogy is a prequel to the others , set during the Civil War and showing how Clint Eastwood 's Man With No Name gradually picks up the props — the poncho , the sheepskin jacket , the cigar — that mark his identity in the other films . |
| 4 | The 23-year-old played Calypso in Channel 4 's steamy story set during Second World War . |
| 5 | It blames the government pricing formula , set during privatisation in 1989 , for ‘ favouring the water industry over consumers who are forced to pay ever increasing prices ’ . |
| 6 | However , I can tell you that the title is The Life & Times Of Henry Pratt and it is set during the years 1936 to 1953 . |
| 7 | The spate of films set during the Vietnam War which reached the screen during the late 1980s highlighted the reluctance with which Hollywood approached the subject for many years . |
| 8 | Robert Altman 's M*A*S*H* ( 1970 ) was ostensibly set during the Korean War but , with its overt anti-authoritarianism , anarchic humour and visceral horror , was expressing aversion towards the Vietnam War . |
| 9 | Tackle all the tasks set during tutorial sessions and know them thoroughly , since it is possible that you might find one or two similar questions in the examination paper . |
| 10 | A second reason is to show how recent British security developments are based on precedents set during the containment of the Irish conflict . |
| 11 | The fact is , Superintendent , I wrote a rather successful book set during the Second World War . |
| 12 | If such a date can not be set during 1997 , then the union will come into effect on 1st January , 1999 , irrespective of the number of countries satisfying the convergence criteria . |
| 13 | This is a history project , set during the English Revolution ( 1640 – 1660 ) . |
| 14 | These targets are due to be set during negotiations for a " sulphur protocol " to be added to the UN Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution . |
| 15 | Usually because it has arisen and set during the daylight hours . |
| 16 | Buy both Apollo XI and Apollo XVII videos at a specially reduced price of £18 the pair , and you will receive a free Apollo slide set worth £8.50 . |
| 17 | But , it is equally important that the imagined outcome should not be set as a goal ; it is not possible to imagine the unexpected however rich our imaginations , and so the possible pot of gold is used to justify our involvement . |
| 18 | The maximum 15 per cent share was set as a form of protection of BTG 's independence , other protection measures include the government 's golden share and the right of UK universities to appoint a director to the BTG board . |
| 19 | Although standards for cycle track construction were set as part of the 1975 Act , it was felt necessary to provide some demonstration projects to give local authorities guidelines on costs , approaches to particular problems , and above all to demonstrate how an entire cycle route might be created . |
| 20 | I was fascinated by our shiny mahogany Sobell wireless set as a kid , and would wait hours for Dick Barton to emerge from the back . |
| 21 | Few ordinary citizens could afford to pay the 300 roubles which Kirov had set as a starting price for the most basic of suits . |
| 22 | Tuition for 1990/91 is set as NOK 50,000 ( approx . |
| 23 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 24 | This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing . |
| 25 | A specified time should be set as a deadline when outgoing mail should be ready if it is to be despatched that day . |
| 26 | This value is set as a final payment and the monthly payments are set accordingly . |
| 27 | We will usually be treating individual instructions or groups of instructions in terms of the facilities that they control , so it is worth saying a few words here about the instruction set as a whole . |
| 28 | We expected that if a task was set as a group task , then it should be done as a group . |
| 29 | The reason for this advice is that quite possibly the question was set as a trap , and if you refrain have avoided it by good luck rather than good management . |
| 30 | Editor , — As R Buckland points out , the clinical terms project is set as the foundation of the NHS 's information technology strategy and is supported by professional bodies . |