Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] set [prep] [art] " 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 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Supreme of chicken set on a casserole of devilled pimiento |
| 8 | Menu Clear beef and celery soup Supreme of chicken set on a casserole of devilled pimiento Crème brulée with exotic fruit |
| 9 | The captain was becoming worried by the amount of ice setting into the bay and was anxious not to be trapped . |
| 10 | The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time . |
| 11 | The second objection was the problem of agenda setting in a participatory democracy . |
| 12 | Each NVQ [ SVQs in Scotland ] is a qualification about work , based on standards of competence set by the industry through its lead body . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The tenor Jose Carreras is to open a new outdoor festival of opera set in a castle grounds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This had small panes of glass set in a large cast-iron frame . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A grain of dust to set beside the mountain of several billion other deaths … |
| 22 | There 's loads of TV sets in the window and I du n no which one to look at . |
| 23 | The codename was chosen because rhyolite is a volcanic rock containing colourful pieces of quartz set in a mass of crystals . |
| 24 | While the concrete is still wet , a more natural effect can be created by the addition of rockwork set into the concrete to create the faces of each small basin . |
| 25 | For simplicity , we are going to assume that the rate charged on bank lending is identical to the rate of interest set by the Bank 's bill market operations , though in practice the lending rate is determined by a mark-up on money market rates . |
| 26 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |
| 27 | There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden . |
| 28 | The trial was designed to have an 80% power , with significance set at the 5% level . |
| 29 | InterCity 's dedicated Victoria-Gatwick Express push-pull service launched in 1984 made little difference to domestic services , employing ex-LMR Mark 2f coaches formed into trailer sets with a 1959-type 2-HAP driving trailer converted to a driving van at one end , and a Class 73 locomotive at the other . |
| 30 | Built in the early 1960's , comprising a modern split-level maisonette with accommodation set on the first and second floors . |