Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 2 | Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage . |
| 3 | Poland 's next general election is not due until 1993 , but there are local ones on May 27th — and meanwhile the government is already well set on the capitalist road . |
| 4 | A short way further on is the handsome village of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry , most fetchingly set amidst the hills and so long-drawn-out as to be really two villages , with the river in between them . |
| 5 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 6 | The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister . |
| 7 | With chestnut-brown hair and classical bone-structure but rather coarse skin , Sister Davenport could have been quite pretty if her face were n't permanently set in a narrow repertoire of sly looks and cruel smiles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When the powder is mixed with cold water it first of all dissolves to a creamy white paste and then slowly sets to a hard solid . |
| 10 | Here Campra made a special feature of a formula Lully used on occasion : the magic/supernatural music is almost always set in the key of VI in relation to a preceding minor key . |
| 11 | However , union fees are almost invariably set as a constant amount of earnings rather than a proportion . |
| 12 | But then take a hospital series like Casualty which has been quite explicitly set in the context of a decaying health service . |
| 13 | Lastly an open door showed him a high square room , almost certainly set under the campanile , which was obviously both the vestry proper and the bell room . |
| 14 | This was realism with a vengeance ; a true story had been used to depict a very real penal practice and the whole thing was very deliberately set by the studio in a specific historical context . |
| 15 | But the institutions of the 1970s were too rigidly set within the competing duopoly ( BBC 1 + BBC2 = ITV ) to be able to meet fully the demands made upon them . |
| 16 | The depiction of the Legion itself might not have been truly authentic but what gave Black Legion much of its initial impact was that the story with all its political message and melodrama was very firmly set in a very real community of American working men . |