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

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1 I have thus found the study of pupil deviance a fertile valley for optimism to set beside the forbidding mountain-like permanence of theories of gender reproduction .
2 Malaysia 's Industrial Master plan also represents such thinking , though many question whether the goals set for the twelve priority sectors of development strategy can be achieved .
3 Will Major and Hurd be able to neutralise the timebomb set by the social chapter amendment ? asks Chris McLaughlin
4 There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden .
5 Your program should not , of curse , subsequently try to use variables set before the clear statement .
6 Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK .
7 The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament .
8 One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet .
9 The QPO is significant at 98% confidence in the data set with the 1984/32 , 1985/173 and 1985/186 observations .
10 A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium
11 The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves .
12 Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ?
13 But as they did so , they unknowingly broke the invisible beam linking two electronic eyes set in the surrounding trees .
14 A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties .
15 At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning .
16 They are comic crime and its cousin , farce crime ; romantic suspense ; historical crime and its near relation , crime set in the immediate past ; and finally , the crime short story .
17 The primary aim of the project has been to utilise micro data sets in the rigorous empirical decisions in the presence of credit market imperfections .
18 And do n't you think , he 'd like to score a happy marriage to set against the other one ? ’
19 ICL HAILS VIKING — NEW SPARC MODELS SET FOR THE THIRD QUARTER , INTEL BOXES DUE IN JULY
20 Such churches were , therefore , like the basilica , rectangular in plan , twice as long as wide and had two or four rows of columns set along the long axis , providing three or five aisles .
21 But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone .
22 As the hot sun set beyond the glittering turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean , they would move inside to escape the mosquitoes and other creatures of the night .
23 The sun set behind the opposite slope .
24 Those who argue for participatory democracy believe active citizenship can not be established within the limitations set by the existing liberal-democratic framework .
25 The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century .
26 Preparing to test an underwater optical fibre cable joint on the 600kV DC test set at the new high voltage laboratory at Southampton University .
27 The self-catering apartments form their own little village set around the palm-fringed swimming pool .
28 But The Cutting Edge ( Cert P.G. ; General ) , a sort of Dirty Dancing on ice set in the competitive world of international skating , left me cold .
29 It was not , it seems , by the classical standards of German decadence set in the 1920 , very shocking .
30 One of the preconditions set by the African National Congress ( ANC ) for negotiation was the lifting of the state of emergency in its entirety .
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