Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] set [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An assignment consists of any problem solving exercise set by a teacher/lecturer with clear guidelines and specified length . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Town hall set for a new look |
| 12 | and was then boarded the team coach set for a quiet weekend before today 's clash at Ipswich Town . |
| 13 | A single regional band could not be applied to Yorkshire , with council tax prices set against a regional band for , say , London and the south-east . |
| 14 | The Hotel Pinar is just back a bit from the beach , with its own pool and an à la carte restaurant set on a roof terrace overlooking the wooded landscape towards the sea . |
| 15 | Opposite her was a small washstand with a coarse crockery toilet set on a fake marble top . |
| 16 | A representation of ‘ Adam and Eve ’ by Wtewael should fetch $700,000–900,000 ( £466,000–600,000 ) and a still-life of fruit in a wicker basket set in a stone niche by Juan van der Hamen y Leon $250,000–350,000 ( £166,000–233,000 ) . |
| 17 | So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 . |
| 18 | Pre-construction work is already underway on the first phase , a 328,000 sq ft building set on a 20 acre green field site within Edinburgh Park , due for completion in Autumn 1995 . |
| 19 | And will you be able to resist desserts such as Black Velvet Pie — a smooth chocolate mousse flavoured with rum and dotted with chocolate chips set on a chocolate biscuit base , topped with creamy mousse and flakes of chocolate ? |
| 20 | Here the staircase is achieved by sizeable concrete drainage pipes set in a bed of concrete one behind the other , each pipe slightly above the next . |
| 21 | This can be achieved in the modern garden by the use of sizeable concrete drainage pipes set in a bed of concrete one behind the other , each pipe slightly above the next . |
| 22 | The front cover was instantly familiar : gilt lettering set in a white rectangle , with some sort of pattern behind it . |
| 23 | The cup in T'zin 's hand was a sculpted crystal bowl set in a mesh of gold wire . |
| 24 | In the beginning ( 1838 ) , early carriage department officers were mainly selected from those who had experience in the building of road vehicles , and their efforts resembled road coaches set upon a flat railway wagon . |
| 25 | Basic machines use the slip stitch setting as a method of knitting Fair Isle . |
| 26 | Some villages had wolf skins pinned to their doors , freshly flayed , and one they came to had the head of a Rime Giant set on a stake outside the headman 's house . |
| 27 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 28 | I was fascinated by our shiny mahogany Sobell wireless set as a kid , and would wait hours for Dick Barton to emerge from the back . |
| 29 | This means that an ambiguous word form set in a disambiguating context may well carry more information than can be accounted for in terms of interaction between the context-independent meaning of the word form , and the semantic properties of the context . |
| 30 | Chalet Style accommodation set in a beautiful , green valley , with its own sandy beach … an ideal Club for families . |