Example sentences of "[noun] [is] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Each Club is set in spacious grounds with an adjacent sandy beach and all offer outstanding value for money proving a popular choice with our clients over a number of years .
2 If PURGE-TASKS is set to ALL then only the latest version of a module will continue to follow its defined process model .
3 Belle Epoque is set in 1931 at a turning point as the monarchy gave way to the republic .
4 Petals of blood is set in post-colonial Kenya .
5 On the other hand if the strategies of parental involvement are n't thoroughly and frequently reviewed then the scene is set for all sorts of problems to arise .
6 The scene is set for further dissociative experiences .
7 The NNDR is set by central government , collected by local authorities , and paid into a central pool .
8 In France such a ceiling is set at 40 LUs in the Zone de Montagne ( 267 sheep ) and 30 LUs ( 200 sheep ) in the Zone de Piedmont .
9 Life gets even more complicated when the type is set across different widths , or ‘ measures ’ ( look at p 140 of last week 's issue ) .
10 The Government-imposed safety limit for annual average exposure to Radon in a home is set at 200 becquerels per cubic metre of air .
11 Evocative , yes , but do n't think that today 's Ireland is set in some quaint emerald aspic .
12 Irenius is set upon convincing Eudoxus that harsh policies are necessary to subdue and civilise Ireland and that a more moderate approach , which might appear sensible from the vantage of civilised English life across the Irish sea , is inadequate to deal with the dangers posed by Ireland .
13 Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter .
14 Taxes are high but not crippling ( income tax in six ranges increases from 12 per cent to 50 per cent , and corporation tax is set at 40 per cent of the profits but mitigated by many concessions ) .
15 The 200 year old stone farmhouse is set in eight acres of unspoilt countryside near to the village of St. Ferme .
16 Here is a more down to earth example than the ones suggested above : the drama is set in contemporary Britain , in a small rural area by the coast .
17 The CIT in the UK is set for another memorable year , under our energetic and high-profile new Chairman , Sir Alastair Morton .
18 When the interrupt system is on , and any device flag register is set to 1 then the computer finishes the current instruction , switches the interrupt system off , stores the contents of the program counter in the left-most twelve bits of store location 0 , and continues to execute instructions starting at location 1 .
19 Overall the study considers that a low price is set on unfair deprivation of a job and that unfair dismissal compensation has little deterrent value for most employers wishing to dispense with the services of employees .
20 Thus if bit i is set to one , condition i is true and subroutine i is to be entered .
21 If Mr Lightbown is set on young and weak Tory miscreants , they either crumble or he persists until they do .
22 Then the only jump instruction that is logically necessary ( though others may be provided for efficiency ) is one to jump if the condition code is set to a specified binary bit pattern ( or perhaps a specified group of patterns ) , and to drop through to the next instruction if the condition code is set to any other pattern .
23 If the parameter count is set to 54 ( ASC " 6 " ) it may be omitted and a window without bars or brackets will be defined .
24 Mr Faulks said : ‘ Inside the police found a complete confidence trickster 's set with 26 different charge cards either in the name of Garawand or in the name of Yousefi and ten cheque books , four of which related to the same account at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington . ’
25 Volume is set for second quarter 1993 .
26 His will is set on continuous war . ’
27 When the file is OPENED , PTR# is set to zero .
28 BRITAIN is set for another clash with Brussels after the European Commission unveiled yesterday a £600 million plan to increase sales of a new generation of wide-screen televisions , mainly made in France and Holland .
29 The 36-box yard is set amidst 17,000 acres of glorious scenery in Clumber Park , owned by one of Glover 's most loyal patrons , Lady Anne Bentinck .
30 For example , if the inheritance boundary is set to 10 and the latest version of the module is in state 5 , then a new unapproved version of the module will inherit state and hence enter state 5 .
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