Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 2 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 3 | In the tables which follow , and which illustrate the distribution of dated items first by century , and then by decade within the twentieth century , the findings of the 1969–70 and 1970–71 surveys are set alongside those of the present Call-slip analysis exercise . |
| 4 | These traditional villages are set in some of the most beautiful Austrian scenery we know . |
| 5 | The cottages are set in some of the most beautiful spots , including Snowdonia National Park , the Lake District , Brownsea Island , Dorset , and the the Fal Estuary , Cornwall . |
| 6 | Some of the keynames ( like Beep ) can only be set to one of two values , so Beep=yes means that Windows will beep every time there 's an error . |
| 7 | A word is a group of electronic components , each of which can be set into either of two states . |
| 8 | The work of internationally known directors such as Malle , Godard , and Tavernier through Besson , Annaud and Akeman will be set alongside that of a new generation like Eric Rochant , Leon Carax and Diane Kurys . |
| 9 | The picture about paid work must be set alongside that of the unpaid domestic work where the ratio of woman to man hours is reversed . |
| 10 | In one variant , manufacturing plants of each seller are designated as bases , and a ‘ base price ’ is set at each of them . |
| 11 | A Tea Garden , serving home made cakes , is set in one of the walled gardens . |
| 12 | This ‘ school ’ was set against that of Jovellanos whose laissez-faire individualism held property to be a natural right with the market as the regulator of the economic relationships between men . |