Example sentences of "[noun] set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Major and Hurd be able to neutralise the timebomb set by the social chapter amendment ? asks Chris McLaughlin |
| 2 | There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden . |
| 3 | Your program should not , of curse , subsequently try to use variables set before the clear statement . |
| 4 | Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK . |
| 5 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 6 | One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet . |
| 7 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 8 | Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ? |
| 9 | But as they did so , they unknowingly broke the invisible beam linking two electronic eyes set in the surrounding trees . |
| 10 | They are comic crime and its cousin , farce crime ; romantic suspense ; historical crime and its near relation , crime set in the immediate past ; and finally , the crime short story . |
| 11 | Such churches were , therefore , like the basilica , rectangular in plan , twice as long as wide and had two or four rows of columns set along the long axis , providing three or five aisles . |
| 12 | But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone . |
| 13 | As the hot sun set beyond the glittering turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean , they would move inside to escape the mosquitoes and other creatures of the night . |
| 14 | The sun set behind the opposite slope . |
| 15 | Those who argue for participatory democracy believe active citizenship can not be established within the limitations set by the existing liberal-democratic framework . |
| 16 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 17 | Preparing to test an underwater optical fibre cable joint on the 600kV DC test set at the new high voltage laboratory at Southampton University . |
| 18 | The self-catering apartments form their own little village set around the palm-fringed swimming pool . |
| 19 | But The Cutting Edge ( Cert P.G. ; General ) , a sort of Dirty Dancing on ice set in the competitive world of international skating , left me cold . |
| 20 | One of the preconditions set by the African National Congress ( ANC ) for negotiation was the lifting of the state of emergency in its entirety . |
| 21 | His real problem , though , is with the film 's director , Alan Parker , who once made a thriller set against the American black civil rights struggle — with two white heroes . |
| 22 | Leo McKern , Sara Kestelman and Ian Holm star in the BBC Screen Two presentation , The Last Romantics , on Sunday , a powerful story of love and betrayal set in the tranquil world of Cambridge University . |
| 23 | CHESTERS ROMAN FORT AND MUSEUM Set in the ancient wooded valleys of Northumberland overlooking the River North Tyne , Chesters is one of the best preserved buildings on Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 24 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 25 | The cockpit is well protected by a deep coaming set on the teak-laid decks , although there is nothing to stop items falling through the aft end of the cockpit , something that may become a liability when sailing in a relaxed fashion with books , Walkmans and bottles of suntan lotion lying on cockpit seats . |
| 26 | With its sights set on the worldwide Keno Gaming market , AWA Gaming Systems has announced the release of Kenix , a Concurrent Computer Corp , real-time Unix-based version of the computer system driving the popular gambling game Club Keno . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 28 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 29 | With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics . |
| 30 | With our feet firmly on the ground and our sights set in the right direction . |