Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As will be discussed below , the treatment of detainees suspected of security offences is still open to serious questioning , but the operations of the penal system itself continue within the bounds set by the Statute of Rights . |
| 2 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 3 | Then she turned and eased herself over the lip , clambered down the old wooden steps set into the clay wall , and ran across towards the jetty . |
| 4 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 5 | These form a larger group than fabliaux set in the country , largely in villages , although the latter group is still a substantial one . |
| 6 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 7 | Wallmounted lights ( including lighting bricks set into the wall ) are a good choice for steps , while post-mounted lights , bollard-type lights or low-level lanterns are good for paths . |
| 8 | They had strengthened structurally weak areas around doors and windows with layers of fired bricks set into the mud walls . |
| 9 | Whereas the standards and styles set by the peer group can set highly influential markers around acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for young people it is in individual friendships that young people find support and security , negotiate their emotional independence , exchange information , put beliefs and feelings into words and develop a new and different perspective of themselves . |
| 10 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
| 11 | But Ireland 's new track queen Sonia O'Sullivan also has her eyes set on the prize , and she has the taste for mega-bucks after her 3,000m win in Brussels earned her four one kilogram gold bars worth about £33,000 . |
| 12 | His face was thin and you saw those strange blue-coloured eyes set in the darkness of his skin . |
| 13 | With a roar , it began to come their way , searching with its closed dead eyes set in the grotesque moving head . |
| 14 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 15 | The philosophy of the African Primary Science Programme derives from the experimental American curriculum projects such as the Physical Science Study Committee ( PSSC ) but the initial goals set at the MIT conference in 1961 indicate that considerable thought was given to needs and conditions in Africa . |
| 16 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 17 | It has thus politicised the problem of violence beyond the parameters set by the law and order debate . |
| 18 | The absence of alternatives to becoming highly dependent on private companies may leave little choice but to accept the parameters set by the ideology of the firm as a family . |
| 19 | A second reason is to show how recent British security developments are based on precedents set during the containment of the Irish conflict . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He surely recollects the precedents set in the steel and coal industries , in which the Community was involved in Europewide initiatives to limit the impact of the decline in demand for the products of the companies concerned . |
| 22 | Horsedrawn trams were introduced in 1882 , using rail-lines set in the middle of the main roads — in Chiswick , from the foot of Kew Bridge — just in front of the ‘ Star & Garter ’ inn — to Hammersmith Broadway . |
| 23 | From where she stood , working access to the most inner room had been via remote control arms and full-sized plastic window-suits set in the wall with their own flexi-corridors that stretched out behind the deeper the technician moved into the room . |
| 24 | Two rounds after the door is opened , the floor between the doors to 76 and 78 retracts and the passage becomes a pit , 4 yards deep , with jagged iron spikes set into the bottom . |
| 25 | Firstly the level of gearing , that is the amount of borrowed funds set against the commitment of proprietor capital or net worth of the business . |
| 26 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 27 | At intervals of a few years , party congresses were held at which major changes of policy would be announced and new directions set for the future . |
| 28 | There were many different sorts of trials set for the field-worker ( something noted in their field-work experience by Douglas 1972 and van Maanen 1982 ) , and the apologies other members of the section later gave her because of this policeman 's conduct is proof that these other trials , too , were successfully passed . |
| 29 | The old quarter is a delightful mixture , with charming Renaissance houses and quiet corners set amid the bustle of the narrow shopping streets , many of them reserved for pedestrians . |
| 30 | It was later estimated that , because of the rising price of oil and increasing production quotas set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) , this figure was an underestimate . |