Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again . |
| 2 | Given that the typical firm expects the aggregate demand curve to be AD , it follows that the general level of prices set at period t - 1 for period t will be P . |
| 3 | THE All Blacks stepped off their plane at Heathrow yesterday straight into the arms of a waiting posse of officials set on saving Wayne Shelford and New Zealand rugby for amateurism . |
| 4 | Managerial autonomy has been fostered by the growth of public sector commercialism based on the principle of allowing managements to operate freely within the framework of targets set for them by the state , and on the promotion of an ‘ entrepreneurial ’ approach to the management of the railways . |
| 5 | It is difficult to see how anyone could notice the absence of white meat or fish with such an unending variety of tastes set before them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These figures are well within the range of possibilities set by observations of the solar constant from the Earth : as Gilliland says in this picture ‘ low temperatures of the last two decades result primarily from a minimum of the solar 76-year cycle ’ . |
| 8 | An attractive , Moorish style village offering well-equipped and furnished apartments and a wide range of facilities set amidst lawns and terraces . |
| 9 | Although fish are not a usual ‘ pest ’ , the team of servicemen set to work immediately and , wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus , removed the decomposing fish and freezers from the premises . |
| 10 | They usually comprise a circle of stake-holes set into shallow trenches with stouter posts located at the doorways , suggesting a wickerwork construction with mud or clay daub walls and a thatched roof . |
| 11 | Negotiations between the government and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) continued during late 1989 and early 1990 over the terms of future structural adjustment and standby facilities , but progress towards an agreement was impeded by the breaching of targets set under the IMF 's monitoring programme . |
| 12 | Dulcie Howes had created Fête galante , a comedy of manners set to Prokofiev 's Classical Symphony ; John 's playing of the ‘ suave and tenebrous major-domo ’ in this was praised by Denis Hatfield as a tiny humorous masterpiece . |
| 13 | TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties . |
| 14 | The quality of texts set by Arcadelt range from the uninspired , to such passionate outpourings as Lorenzino De'Medici 's and Petrach 's . |
| 15 | Be that as it may , the precise chain is not known ; somehow the guild was informed and the train of events set in motion . |
| 16 | And IBM has a further round of announcements set for next Tuesday 16th which will see the AS/400 move into the open systems frame with new Posix functionality and possibly a future game-plan that would see it share Rios 2 — or beyond — chip architectures with the RS/6000 . |
| 17 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 18 | addBits — Counts the number of bits set in part of a picture . |
| 19 | A word or combination of letters set as a single unit . |
| 20 | The spate of films set during the Vietnam War which reached the screen during the late 1980s highlighted the reluctance with which Hollywood approached the subject for many years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 23 | The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves . |
| 24 | They usually had a thick , armoured skin , as well as possessing advanced features such as predentary bone , and sometimes a complex set of teeth set in a horny mouth . |
| 25 | He observes a set of violations set in a microcosm and the photographs resonate with an irony reminiscent of the manner in which the behaviour of Lilliputians was chronicled by Jonathan Swift . |