Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A visit to the castle at Loule , where the tourist information office is set in the remnants of the castle walls between two towers , elicited the answer to my enquiry whether there were Roman or Moorish sites on farms nearby . |
| 32 | The comedy is set in the men 's and women 's loos of a 1970s nightclub in Liverpool . |
| 33 | A ⅜in dowel is set in the ends and the partition over the vent hole and a small brass screw holds a leather washer on to the post to act as a stop . |
| 34 | A large , double bowl sink served by pressure hot and cold fresh water is set in the fiddles peninsula with a trash bin beneath . |
| 35 | In my own experience of rack systems , the biggest problem , if you can call it a problem , is that each unit in the rack has its own level control , and the way each is set against the others can introduce different tonal and distortion elements to the sound . |
| 36 | The mortar is set before the frosts , and the roof will be on well before the snow . ’ |
| 37 | the timetable which was set for the tasks of the project , and |
| 38 | A target of £3.5 million was set for the councils . |
| 39 | At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth . |
| 40 | Round the back , in the patio by the pool , a table was set with the remains of lunch . |
| 41 | The cat was set among the pigeons in 1952 when , von Neumann notwithstanding , David Bohm constructed a specific example of a hidden variable theory which did agree precisely with conventional quantum mechanics in all its empirical predictions . |
| 42 | The crucial boundary between what is ‘ Christian ’ and what is ‘ pagan ’ was set by the limits of official clerical tolerance . |
| 43 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |