Example sentences of "[adv] set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against Ireland the English backs showed wit , poise , passing skills and pace enough to set against the best . |
| 2 | The scene was all set for a pitched battle . |
| 3 | Julius 's mouth suddenly set into a hard line that she remembered very well , and her nerves gave an involuntary quiver . |
| 4 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 5 | The Kings Quest series is basically set in the mythical kingdom of Daventry , and revolves around the adventures of King Graham , his family and subjects . |
| 6 | At the same time this differentiation acts as agent of effective phrasing by tellingly setting off the two heterogeneous themes from one another provided the director is aware of Mozart 's signs and interprets them correctly with greater sharpness for the strokes . |
| 7 | It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods . |
| 8 | Rot had already set into the damp wood and she was able to break chunks off the strut as though they were bits of soggy cardboard . |
| 9 | The production , created by Nuria Espert , is not set at the conventional house on the hill , but in a tenement block in Nagasaki , in the post-war period . |
| 10 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 11 | The clay rapidly set in a hard surface on the table and the floorboards underneath it . |
| 12 | He had roved the district in search of cinematic distraction , of some foolish , enjoyable , Hollywood farrago , preferably set in the ancient world , with all-Americans dressed in togas , and luscious drug-store dames in tailored slave-rags . |
| 13 | It was a handsome face , a model 's face , he thought , with its high cheekbones , long , slightly concave nose , wide , full lips and dark , angry eyes deeply set under the strong brows . |
| 14 | Intended as a ‘ slight inversion of the notion of the sexuality of the road movie ’ , says Giannaris , which is ‘ usually set in a heterosexual context ’ , his bizarre love triangle manages in the midst of its labyrinthine sexual politics to recall Kerouac , Ginsburg and the Beat Generation while at the same time exploring gay sexuality against the backdrop of the American mid-west . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps then , ’ said Viola , whose lips were still set in a Gladstonian expression , ‘ you will find it possible to bring my grandchildren along for me to have a look at . ’ |
| 17 | She was still talking about the snake that lived under the water tank when Tom swung the wheel and purred rapidly up the hospital driveway , and if his face was still set in a grim frown and he did n't seem to be listening to her words at all , she should n't have minded , because the object of the exercise had been to entertain Faye , not him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The scene for the election to the Constitutional Convention was formally set by the British Government when it published its White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " ( see above page 8 ) which was almost immediately followed by the passing of the Northern Ireland Act 1974 on 17 July . |
| 20 | The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 . |
| 21 | The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 . |
| 22 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 23 | A fascinating example of the dehistoricization of history is provided by the two novels published to date by the poet Roberto Pazzi , Cercando l'imperatore ( Looking for the Emperor 1985 ) and La principessa e il drago ( The Princess and the Dragon 1986 ) , both set in the last years of Tsarist Russia . |
| 24 | With both Maazel and Karajan the point is readily made , but their eyes are clearly set on the internal music argument . |
| 25 | The dark cream also sets off the bright red roses well — had I chosen a white satin , card or fabric in a similar shade it would have been too bright and could have detracted from the frame . |
| 26 | That is over a metre beyond his previous best , also set in the Victorian capital . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All that is required is simply to retard the ignition timing by 3 degrees ( are you sure that your ignition timing is spot on , anyway — try unleaded and if the engine does n't ‘ pink ’ , you 're OK , but have the ignition properly set at the next service ) . |
| 29 | You will be able to choose between a single or a double oven , with an eye-level grill or a grill at waist level , often set into a small top oven . |
| 30 | Power contests were often set in a legal framework . |