Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Officers ' buttons bore ‘ I ’ for infantry on a central shield set on the coat of arms . |
| 32 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 33 | They had strengthened structurally weak areas around doors and windows with layers of fired bricks set into the mud walls . |
| 34 | The other sentry 's trouser-leg darkened as he shakily but hurriedly turned the locking wheel set into the wall . |
| 35 | Investment would no longer be subject to an annual ceiling set by the Treasury ( which , for example , is currently stopping BR buying up-to-date Networker trains to help relieve congestion on lines in Kent ) . |
| 36 | This pretty Victorian farmhouse set in the hills of Staffordshire has beautiful views from all aspects overlooking a peaceful valley . |
| 37 | This works like an individual Filofax where copies of appraisals and checklists of personal targets set by the employee are included . |
| 38 | Playing the SW213EB through a guitar amp ( which is probably how electros in this price bracket will be used ) with the amp 's mid control backed off helped improve the clarity , but as the pickup is the passive type , with six individual polepieces set into the fingerboard , it 's never going to have the bite of an active , bridge-mounted transducer . |
| 39 | Victorian passion set against the Suffolk landscape in The Bridge |
| 40 | Huge stiffened but graceful garlands were hung from twenty-four tiny hooks set round the gallery parapet , and were constructed so cleverly that they gave the impression of winding around the gallery pillars . |
| 41 | Executed in 1884 , it depicts in detail a group of typical characters set against the bustle of the market . |
| 42 | The Papal State lay wedged like a nut within a giant imperial nutcracker — a small insecure state set within the imperial towns and communes to the north and the tightly-governed Regno to the south . |
| 43 | The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst is a beautifully written , homoerotic novel set in the pre-AIDS gay male sub-culture of London in the early 1980s . |
| 44 | The rationale for this approach is to develop a warm and caring relationship between the parent and child with clear and identifiable limits set by the parent about the child 's behaviour . |
| 45 | When the sample is completely molten the dilatometer is transferred to a second thermostat set at the temperature selected for crystallization to take place and allowed to equilibrate . |
| 46 | He stood , then went across to the tiny oven set into the wall on the far side of the room and lit it . |
| 47 | But the working party goes further : ‘ By examining some examples of typical assignments set in the classroom , approached through the eyes of the pupils , we discover a series of stages that have to be worked through … |
| 48 | The use and refinement of existing powers The legal and operational precedents set by the strike were being followed and expanded by the police almost as soon as the dispute was over . |
| 49 | The self-catering apartments form their own little village set around the palm-fringed swimming pool . |
| 50 | This is a larger block set between the arch and the capital to provide a broader supporting top for the arcade above . |
| 51 | Basic rates set by the Wages Councils apply equally to women and men . |
| 52 | Wedded to their reflections in the waters that surround them , they look like giant gemstones set in the blue . |
| 53 | Mr Flook was confident that the authority could meet the March 31 deadline set by the Government for getting the wait for in-patient or day surgery down to a maximum of two years . |
| 54 | It hung on the outside of the small wrought-iron gate set in the brick wall at the main entrance . |
| 55 | Then she saw a wrought-iron gate set in the corner , and hurried towards it . |
| 56 | The Beau Rivage is a comfortable hotel set on the front in Baveno , opposite the promenade and close to the centre of the village . |
| 57 | The facades of 106 houses were rapidly built , but it was another twenty years or more before many of the interiors were begun and Kemp Town stayed for some time rather like a giant film set with the image of grandeur propped up by heavy wooden beams . |
| 58 | Thus , until the receiving mortar sets around the tesserae , they are invisible . |
| 59 | " There 's a pretty fruit set in the cabinet there . |
| 60 | The Gothic style of the mansion has made it an ideal film set in the past . |