Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] set [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island .
2 His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it .
3 On the little altar to his ancestors beside the mirror , lighted candles stood amidst tiny dishes of fruits , pork , fish and rice , and behind him incense burners and small brass pans of aloe wood set on a low lacquered table sent perfumed smoke drifting in gentle spirals towards the ceiling .
4 Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees .
5 The gas turbine division owns five additional gas turbine generator sets with a combined power output of 40 MW which are available for lease or resale .
6 An assignment consists of any problem solving exercise set by a teacher/lecturer with clear guidelines and specified length .
7 The production of the CH 3 · radical by flash photolysis of CH 3 I , for instance , has been monitored using a tunable IR laser set at a fixed frequency of 608.301 cm -1 , coinciding with the strong Q-branch of the ν 2 band .
8 Those of classical design and inspiration are infrequent , the most impressive being the tetrastyle prostyle temple set on a high podium and dedicated to Sulis Minerva at Bath .
9 Town hall set for a new look
10 and was then boarded the team coach set for a quiet weekend before today 's clash at Ipswich Town .
11 A single regional band could not be applied to Yorkshire , with council tax prices set against a regional band for , say , London and the south-east .
12 Opposite her was a small washstand with a coarse crockery toilet set on a fake marble top .
13 A representation of ‘ Adam and Eve ’ by Wtewael should fetch $700,000–900,000 ( £466,000–600,000 ) and a still-life of fruit in a wicker basket set in a stone niche by Juan van der Hamen y Leon $250,000–350,000 ( £166,000–233,000 ) .
14 So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 .
15 And will you be able to resist desserts such as Black Velvet Pie — a smooth chocolate mousse flavoured with rum and dotted with chocolate chips set on a chocolate biscuit base , topped with creamy mousse and flakes of chocolate ?
16 Here the staircase is achieved by sizeable concrete drainage pipes set in a bed of concrete one behind the other , each pipe slightly above the next .
17 This can be achieved in the modern garden by the use of sizeable concrete drainage pipes set in a bed of concrete one behind the other , each pipe slightly above the next .
18 The front cover was instantly familiar : gilt lettering set in a white rectangle , with some sort of pattern behind it .
19 The cup in T'zin 's hand was a sculpted crystal bowl set in a mesh of gold wire .
20 In the beginning ( 1838 ) , early carriage department officers were mainly selected from those who had experience in the building of road vehicles , and their efforts resembled road coaches set upon a flat railway wagon .
21 Basic machines use the slip stitch setting as a method of knitting Fair Isle .
22 Some villages had wolf skins pinned to their doors , freshly flayed , and one they came to had the head of a Rime Giant set on a stake outside the headman 's house .
23 It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high .
24 This means that an ambiguous word form set in a disambiguating context may well carry more information than can be accounted for in terms of interaction between the context-independent meaning of the word form , and the semantic properties of the context .
25 Chalet Style accommodation set in a beautiful , green valley , with its own sandy beach … an ideal Club for families .
26 Efficient utilisation of processing capacity is obtained by using an interrupt routine to control tile motor , with the main program being interrupted by a constant frequency clock set at a suitable multiple of the pull-out rate .
27 At the centre of this system is a constant frequency clock set at a rate which is substantially above the starting/ stopping rate of the system .
28 Video Plan 18 is an example of a recording task set for a group of university students .
29 It 's science fiction set in a London police box .
30 There is a pleasant pool ( open from mid-May ) and a pool bar set in a small but pretty garden .
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