Example sentences of "[noun] set at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought .
3 Preparing to test an underwater optical fibre cable joint on the 600kV DC test set at the new high voltage laboratory at Southampton University .
4 The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) .
5 The European Association for the Conservation of Energy says member states will not now be able to meet the targets set at the UNCED Rio summit [ see ED 59/60 ] .
6 It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price .
7 The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time .
8 Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes .
9 Saudi Arabia and other members also disagreed over the interpretation of the ‘ marker ’ crude price set at the previous year 's OPEC conference in Bah , with a resolution so widely phrased that each member could do whatever it chose .
10 Sculley said he did not believe anyone had been able to build an HDTV set at a reasonable price .
11 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 .
12 Begin to add the warm distilled water , drop by drop at first , to the oil and wax , beating with a rotary whisk , balloon whisk or an electric food mixer set at the lowest speed .
13 Efficient utilisation of processing capacity is obtained by using an interrupt routine to control tile motor , with the main program being interrupted by a constant frequency clock set at a suitable multiple of the pull-out rate .
14 Young Area Sneaker was the faithful companion of ‘ Chokee Bill ’ , himself a prototypical comic-strip crook with swag-bag and cosh , and in their weekly scrapes with the law — personified for Comic Cuts readers in the ineffectual shape of ‘ Fairyfoot the Fat Cop ’ — he was quite recognisably dressed in a budding Hooligan 's attire : bell-bottoms , flowing neck-scarf , cap set at a jaunty angle , and boots two sizes too big .
15 The implement you need has an overall length of some 6 foot 6 inches ( 2 metres ) , is ash-handled and has a long , narrow spoon-shaped blade set at a slight angle to the shaft .
16 The timing control allows your heating to come on up to six times a day , with each time set at a different temperature .
17 A stocky figure with a heavy serge coat and a ‘ lum ’ hat set at a jaunty angle , turned to his two companions .
18 He was wearing an elderly white linen jacket and a blue spotted bow-tie , so that , given a boater hat set at a jaunty angle , he might indeed have looked like the late Max Beerbohm .
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