Example sentences of "[noun] be set [prep] the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Translated from the original French , the 16 takes of fantasy and fable in Flammes de Pierre are set around the Mont Blanc range which the author knows well .
2 You can also choose sealed units that give your windows the small-paned Georgian look , or the appearance of leaded lights in square and diamond formats , with none of the cleaning problems — the glazing bars and lead strips are set in the gap between the outer panes ( as long as you do n't go for a large picture window with this effect — it can look just plain silly ! ) .
3 Stanza three , the fox 's nose touch twig leaf and its footprints are set into the snow .
4 Some implements are set with the heads at different angles to make them easier to manoeuvre with one hand .
5 During a study of the various styles , it became apparent to me that if the back legs are set into the seat rails at an angle , this angle , together with the curvature of the rear legs and backward slope of the chair back can regulate the flair : if the legs are mounted at right angles to the rear seat rail , there would be no flair .
6 If all outputs are set top the minimum pulse width of 0.75mS , the frame rate will be 14.2mS ( 8 × 0.75mS + 8.2mS ) whilst if all outputs are set to the maximum pulse width of 2.25mS the frame rate will be 26.2mS ( 8 × 2.25mS + 8.2mS ) .
7 Business parameters are set by the market ; the focus is the customer or client and their demands .
8 Figure 8 Human skull from a Pre-pottery Neolithic level at Jericho , seventh millennium B.C. The face is plastered and cowrie shells are set in the eye sockets .
9 a partly automatic system is better , in which the time for regeneration is set by the operator after tests to determine the water hardness .
10 Boswednack Manor is set between the Penwith Moors and the wild Cornish coastline , and combines natural history with meditation and organic food .
11 Dessert cutlery is set above the place mat ; butter knife is on the side plate .
12 Because the front bed is now the main bed , the main tension is set on the front carriage .
13 Is a prisoner serving a life sentence entitled to make representations before his tariff is set by the Secretary of State ? 4 .
14 Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her .
15 The voltage gain of the amplifier is set by the ratio of resistor R1 to R1 at 11 times .
16 St Gilgen is set on the north west shore of the Wolfgangsee .
17 The action is set in the kind of country house , all wood panelling and flickering firelight , that normally provides the setting for a creaky stage thriller .
18 The upper limit on the amount of data is set by the database that has to handle it all , rather than by the car code system .
19 From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland .
20 Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection .
21 To prevent seepage from the soil eroding the bottom part of the mud wall , a layer of fired bricks was set into the wall to separate the mud bricks from the foundation .
22 Night netting requires that your nets are set between the rabbits ' home ground and their feeding areas .
23 And stargazers who slavishly read those horoscopes are set for the sign of eternal damnation .
24 Beside the front doors of the houses at this mining settlement near Peterlee , slates are set into the walls .
25 The scene is set for the events leading up to the Crucifixion .
26 The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be .
27 This shows accuracy , however , not prejudice : most of his work is set before the English navvies and engineers descended on Normandy .
28 A complete candidate string is only allowable if the end-of-word flag is set at the node in the tree for the last letter of the string ( see flowchart D2 in Appendix D ) .
29 If all such letters are found , the algorithm checks whether the resulting string is a word ( i.e. the end-of-word flag is set at the tree-node reached by the search ) .
30 With 150cm Oppdal is set for the winter .
  Next page