Example sentences of "[noun] set [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party may have put on a collar and tie but it is still the Labour Party , prone to its old reflexes ( as it reminded us yesterday on defence spending ) , prisoner still of its anachronistic structure , its mind set in 100 years of working-class history . |
| 2 | The rudder set at 45 degrees to the vane would make the float cut across the wind or rather from one side of the bath tub to the other . |
| 3 | In fact the rot set in 15 years ago when Dr Coggan asked for a meeting with Jim Callaghan to lobby for the Church to be exempted from a two per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 4 | There are many stately homes , including Adlington Hall , a stunning Elizabethan manor with an elegant Georgian portico ; Arley Hall and Gardens , a Victorian residence set in twelve acres of gardens ; and Bramwell Hall , a 15th-century black and white manor house . |
| 5 | Selection for technical education continued to take place , generally at thirteen , but it tended to reflect existing patterns set by two years of secondary schooling so that grammar school successes were unlikely to change in mid-stream . |
| 6 | This has a total of nine teeth set in three rows , and could well have come from a lock fitted to the door of a villa . |
| 7 | Billing Aquadrome is an established leisure park set in 270 acres of parkland , woods and lakes . |
| 8 | Thirty miles away , Wroxham Barns has a collection of traditional 18th-century working barns set in ten acres of parkland . |
| 9 | 12 buildings all with displays set in 2½ acres , including the oldest photographic studio in the country . |
| 10 | He has watched the same badger set for 46 years , he says , and with an average badger lifespan of under ten years , that means several generations . |
| 11 | Simple codes embedded into the text files define the format that the article will adopt when printed ; for example , a bold heading set across two columns , with the text in single columns below . |
| 12 | In Gulliver 's Travels ( Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ) , 2 vols. , 1726–27 , the true first edition has a frontispiece oval portrait with an inscription set in two lines beneath the oval , not round it . |
| 13 | In 1990–1 , the first year of operation of the new system , he followed the latter course , and capped the charges set by 21 authorities . |
| 14 | Keeping up with the latest hair trends as ever , Wella has just introduced Hair Sets in three variants . |
| 15 | These otherworldly concerns gave way to more earthly considerations when Diana took the Common Entrance exam to enable her to follow in the footsteps of her sisters , Sarah and Jane , at West Heath boarding school set in 32 acres of parkland and woods outside Sevenoaks in Kent . |
| 16 | 500 year old Country Hotel set in 4 acres . |
| 17 | ALDWARK MANOR is a splendid 19th Century country house hotel set in 190 acres of Yorkshire parkland . |
| 18 | Of the pieces on offer at Christie 's the most important is a gold and Columbian emerald cross set with sixty-six stones with a highly distinctive engraved reverse which would once have been enamelled or possibly filled in with niello ( est. £150–200,000 ) . |
| 19 | A Victorian mansion house set in 55 acres . |
| 20 | A 15th Century Manor House set in 580 acres . |
| 21 | The Old Rectory is a lovely old family house set in 3 acres of well maintained gardens with large well-appointed rooms offering every comfort . |
| 22 | The museum is an eighteenth-century house set in 40 acres of parkland with a river and waterfall . |
| 23 | The house was begun in 1751 , a magnificent mansion set in 2,000 acres of parkland and gardens landscaped by Capability Brown . |
| 24 | 18th century Palladian mansion set in 3,000 acres of parkland . |
| 25 | His house is a mansion set in 66 acres . |