Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
2 | Article 38 is the only specified exception , for it preserves the position that a rule set forth in a treaty can become binding upon a third party as a rule of customary international law . |
3 | As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
4 | The address position is formed with the weight set more to the left side , leaning into the slope in order to gain stability and balance . |
5 | He watched intently as the tiny shutters of tree-bark opened wider and wider , and when they were fully open they revealed a small squarish window set neatly in the curve of the big branch . |
6 | There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 . |
7 | There was a breakfast room set aside for the train party where a piece of the mystery would unravel each morning . |
8 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
9 | Clauses 70 to 73 provide for the introduction of the council tax set separately by the regional , islands and district councils in respect of dwellings in their areas . |
10 | Which was when the other horse got to Hullabaloo 's quarters , a big , handsome bay , his bit covered in a white froth , his nostrils wide and red , and his eye set fast on the forthcoming obstacle . |
11 | It was a typical mode of response by Hoggart , contrasting the cultural solidity of the English pub and its robust pleasures with the contrived artificiality of the ‘ American ’ cafe ; the fantasy world of admass set unfavourably against the down-to-earth character of working-class tradition . |
12 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
13 | Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were characterised as an ‘ extension of the conditions which the Soviet Union set earlier on the normalisation of conditions in the basin of the Indian Ocean , on transforming it into a zone of peace ’ . |
14 | Land set aside in the EC must not be the green light for imports from other countries either — whether from countries in the GATT negotiations , or from Eastern Europe . |
15 | It had been built in the late eighteenth century , two storeys high , shallow slate roof , red brick , seven windows set in ashlar along the upper floor , six below and the front door set centrally under a portico and pillared porch . |
16 | The shaking table is a 50-tonne concrete plate set horizontally in a hole in a concrete floor with several centimetres of play at the edges . |
17 | Even before the build-up to the Hinkley C Inquiry , the sum set aside by the Board each year in its special ‘ future provisions ’ fund had risen sharply from £133 million in 1982 to £604 million in 1986 . |
18 | It has a basic negentropic ( formative and organising ) effect even as heat increases , and therefore is the opposite of entropy which is the disintegration and disorganisation of matter set forth by the Second Law of Thermodynamics , which it thereby violates . |
19 | Use of biodiesel is favoured by European farmers , who would be allowed to grow rapeseed on land set aside under the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy . |
20 | Hill Street takes a little longer , but Aspen is conspicuous ; a long white villa set just below the crest of a low , wooded ridge , surrounded by white walls with ornamental black railings and little ball-head shrubs standing in wooden tubs . |
21 | Our understanding of the civilian occupation at Kenchester is inevitably dominated by the aerial photographs , which reveal a 9 ha ( 22 acre ) irregular defended enclosure set roughly astride an east-west road immediately to the west of its junction with two other roads . |
22 | He wants the findings and recommendations of the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland over a special report on the Western Isles Council and BCCI set aside in an action for judicial review that went before Lord Prosser yesterday . |
23 | This reluctance to accept death as a ‘ natural ’ and inevitable stage in the cycle of life recalls the doctrine set forth in the Old Testament and enshrined in orthodox Christian teaching . |
24 | For its distinct absence of bridges , cave sets and other hazards , Carole Ann Ford 's favourite story remained the two part adventure set entirely within the TARDIS ‘ The Edge of Destruction ’ . |
25 | This was only one among the many spatial , time , and monetary boundaries of liability set forth in the Hague Rules . |
26 | Equally , however , the farmer is entitled to demand that the countryside be viewed neither as a more extensive version of an urban recreation ground , nor as an arcadian idyll set aside for the pursuit of an indulgent atavism . |
27 | The party set forth on the road for Verdun . |
28 | Lexicographers change these values in the course of their work but the system will not allow them to set the status field to a value set initially by the system . |