Example sentences of "[noun] and set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brains themselves only need the lightest poaching for a quarter of an hour before being lifted out of the court-bouillon and set on the beds of lettuce . |
| 2 | If a fire starts in a room ( and most hotel fires do ) , the smoke leaks through the door , rises to the ceiling and sets off the alarm . |
| 3 | Push halved new potatoes , cut sides down , on to sticks and set on the hot surface . |
| 4 | Although the little hut at Trebyan was only a couple of hundred yards from the house and the pottery it was over the slope of the hill and hemmed in by gorse and hawthorn : a single large room with a verandah , built of lap boarding , raised on a brick base and set in the side of the hill . |
| 5 | That means an educated working class , understanding the needs of socialism or communism and setting about the task of achieving it by getting rid of capitalism and introducing socialism , or communism . |
| 6 | Go for well-designed china that delights the eye and sets off the food . |
| 7 | The most famous was composed , according to J. Clare Billing , by four natives of the town and set to the tune of a Scottish dance which was performed by the town waits . |
| 8 | The tooth , for example , is a living organ , at equilibrium with a complex biological environment and set in the mouth close to blood vessels , nerves , sense organs and salivary glands . |
| 9 | Opposite the door and set under the windows was an ancient oak desk with three right-hand drawers , one without handles . |
| 10 | This month Ken takes the plunge and sets about the daunting task of buying a new machine . |
| 11 | The refund may therefore be spread over the remaining expected service lives of current employees who are members and set against the regular cost for those years . |
| 12 | Although it seems unlikely , it does have a history of herbal use , being listed in Gerard 's herbal ; " the floures steeped in oil and set in the Sun , are good to anoint the body that is benummed , and growne very cold " . |
| 13 | Because of the direction in which the Earth revolves , the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west . |
| 14 | Based on a novel by E M Forster and set at the turn of the century , this is an elaborate and visually handsome period piece . |
| 15 | For the special Christmas episode , ‘ The Feast of Steven ’ , an episode never screened abroad , Camfield wanted to use the main actors and sets from the popular Z Cars series ( including Brian Blessed , Colin Welland and James Ellis ) in cameo appearances . |
| 16 | Surrounded by hills and set at the mouth of the lush Foglia Valley , this is an attractive resort and an interesting town in its own right . |
| 17 | Each piece is individually made in solid gold and set with the world 's finest alternative to diamonds . |
| 18 | Yet back in the 1950s there was the ‘ Teddy Boy ’ to alarm the public and to set against the allegedly poor but honest inter-war years when people could leave their doors unlocked . |
| 19 | It is now a grand little farmhouse forming part of a courtyard together with its outbuildings and set against the prevailing wind from the northwest . |
| 20 | The objective of this special orientation , and similar arrangements in several other Mesoamerican cities , were the points on the horizon where the Sun rose and set on the day it passed directly overhead . |
| 21 | The morning 's milk was poured , still warm , into a large pan and set by the fire because the temperature had to be kept around 93° . |
| 22 | The play , written by André Birabeau and set in the Paris of 1919 , brought praise for the performances of Crawford and his co-star , nineteen-year-old Sarah Long , who had played the same role a year earlier when a different production was staged in Brighton and London . |