Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island . |
2 | Or , still in New York , there is Peter Yates ' The House On Carroll Street ( Virgin ) , a gripping suspense story set against the background of the McCarthy inquisition . |
3 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
4 | 8 ( 5 ) WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Woody ( Cheers ) Harrelson and Wesley Snipes star in this buddy movie set in the world of basketball . |
5 | The success of the portland blue Jasper range , which was launched last year , has lead to the addition of the Brewster tea set to the collection . |
6 | All the rain she needs has fallen on the Queen 's racetrack in the past week to make jockey Pat Eddery set for a much better day than last year . |
7 | On the little altar to his ancestors beside the mirror , lighted candles stood amidst tiny dishes of fruits , pork , fish and rice , and behind him incense burners and small brass pans of aloe wood set on a low lacquered table sent perfumed smoke drifting in gentle spirals towards the ceiling . |
8 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
9 | The gas turbine division owns five additional gas turbine generator sets with a combined power output of 40 MW which are available for lease or resale . |
10 | Economists said the growth of money in the economy , known as M0 , grew sharply in March and remains well above the monitoring range set by the Government . |
11 | American firms issue paper privately mainly to skirt the burdensome disclosure rules set by the Securities and Exchange Commission . |
12 | An assignment consists of any problem solving exercise set by a teacher/lecturer with clear guidelines and specified length . |
13 | A revision exercise set within an environment indicates which variables or considerations are pertinent , whereas in true problem-solving , the environment is less well defined and the identification of pertinent information is a difficult aspect of solution . |
14 | Most of the seminal papers which give rise to paradigm shifts , and the creation of new journals to publish new subjects or combinations of subjects , are first published in the core journal set for the earlier research front , and the clusters which define the new research front may not include the journal which first published the paper which led to its inception . |
15 | Each borrower under a variable interest rate loan pays the lending bank(s) LIBOR plus the agreed spread at pre-determined reference dates set in the loan agreement . |
16 | Each student will have their own coursework folder , and in it keep all of their work including the question paper set by the tutor , their answers and a copy of the tutor 's assessment , for each of the five subject areas . |
17 | The production of the CH 3 · radical by flash photolysis of CH 3 I , for instance , has been monitored using a tunable IR laser set at a fixed frequency of 608.301 cm -1 , coinciding with the strong Q-branch of the ν 2 band . |
18 | Starting at page A two , paragraph five and nine indicate that there is presently a gap of so of some eleven point four million pounds , between the overall spending limits of three hundred and eighty-one point four million pounds , agreed by the Policy Committee last November , and the provisional cutting limits set by the Government of three hundred and seventy million pounds . |
19 | Flaming Ears was the fourth and I joined three of my colleagues in a mini-mass walkout of this totally unstructured , ineptly shot , meaningless mish-mash of an Austrian vampire lesbian flick set in the year 2700 . |
20 | Those of classical design and inspiration are infrequent , the most impressive being the tetrastyle prostyle temple set on a high podium and dedicated to Sulis Minerva at Bath . |
21 | The 15 January deadline set by the UN was not met and Operation Desert Storm began . |
22 | The TGAT Report ( DES 1987 ) on testing within the National Curriculum has suggested that parents be helped by having schools ' published test results set against the socio-economic circumstances of the pupils . |
23 | The water was fed to the mill through a cast iron sluice box set in the back wall . |
24 | Moving breathing apparatus sets from the store in the laundry building at Hunterston A to Hunterston B and back again has always been a hassle in the past . |
25 | CONTINUING the Cockerton theme set by the Alma , Fountain of the Week digs deep into the flowerbeds of the village green and comes up with an historic geezer . |
26 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |
27 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
28 | But this year Jane Campion , a New Zealand-born director , was deservedly a joint winner of the Golden Palm with ‘ The Piano ’ , an ambitious period study set in the Antipodes in the 1850s . |
29 | Town hall set for a new look |
30 | and was then boarded the team coach set for a quiet weekend before today 's clash at Ipswich Town . |