Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses .
32 Mr. Pegg believes that his tariff may have been set on the basis that the attack was premeditated , and thus that the tariff period should be reduced .
33 Such plans will henceforth be subject to approval from CCMLR ; , A limit of 1.5 million tonnes has been set on the amount of krill that can be caught .
34 Within the UK the threshold has been set at a level of £135,000 , above which any business supplying or acquiring goods will have to complete this form on a monthly basis .
35 Shareholders will benefit because the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative has been set at a level which is 50 per cent higher than the recommended final cash dividend .
36 The stake had been set at a silver thruppence — a thruppence which ( Louisa remembered smiling now ) she had never seen , for the afternoon had ended in disaster .
37 Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments .
38 These are the highest within the EC , having been set at the top of the EC recommended range .
39 More world records have been set at the Bislet than at any other stadium in the world .
40 For the same reason these last two chairs are not turned to face the rest of the group : they have been set at an angle , obliquely oriented towards the open-work balustrade and the hillside opposite .
41 Had the survey been set within an authority ( like Oxfordshire , the West Riding of Yorkshire or Berkshire ) where progressive methods had been longer practised , the findings might well have been radically different .
42 Meanwhile figures for Oxfordshire 's council tax have also been set after a meeting which lasted into the early hours of this morning
43 A Bible passage that I sometimes imagine might have been set in a school playground ( or assembly hall ) is found in Matthew 9:37–38 .
44 A table for two had been set in a sort of bower beneath a canopy of spreading palms .
45 This call follows the LIFESPAN DC access rules which restricts access to a DC ( unless the optional switch has been set in the configuration file ) to the associated DC user or an interested user ( i.e. the manager of any modules on the DC or the manager of packages containing one or more of these modules ) or , if applicable , the nominated approver of the package via which the DC has been activated .
46 This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest .
47 Standards that have been set by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders .
48 Precedents have been set by the Trans-Pennine Movement ( with an all-party MPs ' group in support ) , by the powerful counter-action in the North East when Scottish devolution was in the air ; the developmental spirit of the regional economic planning councils abolished by government in 1979 is abroad again , though unconnected , in all three regions .
49 The TSBs have told us that their lending , started only in 1977 , is increasing rapidly ( within a quota which has been set by the Treasury ) .
50 Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed .
51 The opening price for " Node Check " had already been set by the dealing manager , who had arrived a little earlier .
52 The deadline of Dec. 15 had been set by the UN after Cristiani had tried to delay a purge of senior military figures [ see p. 39137 ] .
53 Night netting requires that your nets are set between the rabbits ' home ground and their feeding areas .
54 In the little churchyard in Sasbach , by contrast , two inconspicuous marble tablets are set into a wall .
55 The church has other features too that come from the Moorish Spain of the Middle Ages : above all , the queer openwork stone screens that are set into the window embrasures , hewn crudely but winningly into geometric patterns .
56 Beside the front doors of the houses at this mining settlement near Peterlee , slates are set into the walls .
57 Stanza three , the fox 's nose touch twig leaf and its footprints are set into the snow .
58 When the facts or events I mentioned above are put together in sequence , and when they are set into the background of recent developments , then a different and far more worrying interpretation begins to appear .
59 During a study of the various styles , it became apparent to me that if the back legs are set into the seat rails at an angle , this angle , together with the curvature of the rear legs and backward slope of the chair back can regulate the flair : if the legs are mounted at right angles to the rear seat rail , there would be no flair .
60 One large dome and two smaller ones with twisted columned drums are set over the narthex which has 12 columns to support them inside .
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