Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have thus found the study of pupil deviance a fertile valley for optimism to set beside the forbidding mountain-like permanence of theories of gender reproduction . |
| 2 | With the exception of Whitburn New the standard of effluent set by the Forth River Purification Board is the Royal Commission Standard ie BOD 20 mg/l which is dependent on at least 8 times dilution in the receiving waters to achieve a river water quality adequate to support fish life . |
| 3 | Historically , the standard of diligence set by the courts has been comically low , as can be seen from the cases concerning failure to supervise fellow directors and managers who turn out to have been defrauding the company . |
| 4 | It was the course of action set by the Duke of Windsor when he quit the throne to marry Wallis Simpson . |
| 5 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 6 | The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 10 | TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties . |
| 11 | From where I stood outside it I could see the Channel and the town of Boulogne set around the port . |
| 12 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 13 | Although it was hardly disputable that a West German contribution to NATO would be invaluable , especially as the other European members did not wish to , or could not , meet the new levels of requirement set by the United States , the American demand caused consternation and an agonising evaluation of its consequences in the capitals of Europe , and nowhere more so than in Paris . |
| 14 | Such churches were , therefore , like the basilica , rectangular in plan , twice as long as wide and had two or four rows of columns set along the long axis , providing three or five aisles . |
| 15 | The captain was becoming worried by the amount of ice setting into the bay and was anxious not to be trapped . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Another example of a conflict between official and unofficial group norms can be drawn from a situation where a group itself decides to operate a certain level of output over a given time , regardless of targets set by the management in their search for increased efficiency and productivity . |
| 20 | He orchestrated a number of other shows , including in 1976 Fire Angel , a version of Shakespeare 's Merchant of Venice set in the New York underworld . |
| 21 | Each NVQ [ SVQs in Scotland ] is a qualification about work , based on standards of competence set by the industry through its lead body . |
| 22 | From a purist point of view if the terms of debate set by the study of an inner city problematic are illegitimate then perhaps they should not be addressed at all . |
| 23 | There are three pairs of pads set into the surface of the tube ; one pair set on the top control the forward and backward motion , the second pair mounted on the side at the top control the up and down motion . |
| 24 | In The Animal Estate , Harriet Ritvo notes that pigs ‘ had trouble meeting even the minimal standard of obedience set by sheep and cattle , let alone the high standards of co-operation set by the dog and the horse . |
| 25 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | Television and readership surveys in Britain are conducted under the umbrella of two national bodies — JICTAR ( Joint Industry Committee for Television Advertising Research ) , which meters a representative sample of television sets throughout the nation , and JICNARS ( Joint Industry Committee for National Readership Surveys ) , which conducts , and reports on , 30,000 interviews annually , covering over 100 different publications . |
| 27 | Its most famous son is Rossini who founded the town 's Institute of Music set alongside the renaissance palace , twisting narrow streets and fortress of the historic town centre . |
| 28 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 29 | When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof . |
| 30 | A grain of dust to set beside the mountain of several billion other deaths … |