Example sentences of "be set [art] " in BNC.

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1 The crown consists of two circlet crowns welded together and into which has been set a cloth-covered headpiece .
2 In this particular case , of course , I had been set a slightly extraordinary task , but I had nevertheless not been neglectful to incorporate ‘ margins ’ wherever possible .
3 The JMP-1 is an attractive 1U package , with what looks like a gold anodised front panel into which has been set a window for all the data controls .
4 Each player has been set an individual achievement target , and has the security of a year-long period in which to prove himself .
5 She 'd been set the huge task by Christian Aid on behalf of a family who fled to the camp from neighbouring war-torn Mozambique .
6 I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding .
7 Once the standard has been set the court must decide whether the child 's health or development falls significantly short of this .
8 Much of the Unit 's current work is involved in setting , checking , distributing and marking the examination papers : almost 1100 different papers are set every year .
9 Into recesses in the wall are set a range of marvellous and enigmatic gadgets , clearly the products of some sophisticated science .
10 Most of Mareuil 's vineyards are set a little distance from the village on south-east-facing slopes immediately beneath Mutigny .
11 And I say that because as Mr touched on in his introduction , the West Yorkshire districts are set a methodology for the definition of their housing requirement , buy R P G two .
12 In my view many manufactured nets are skimped on width with the result that when they are set the necessary amount of slack within the net can only be achieved by the sacrifice of adequate height .
13 As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg .
14 Round the floor of the valley are set the entrances to the tombs .
15 Firstly , because the PRS has a carved top , the gap from the underside of the bridgeplate to the table may need to be set a fraction more than ″ , depending upon the amount of ‘ pull up ’ required on the tremolo .
16 A practice with more patients needing expensive medicines will be set a larger amount .
17 Against this must be set a non-response about twice that for a random sample involving house calls .
18 One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing .
19 Lawrence Weaver , whose work as an author had contributed much to Lutyens 's recognition as an architect , wrote of the Dolls ' House in 1924 that ‘ The planning of a strictly symmetrical house like this is one of the shrewdest tasks that can be set an architect . ’
20 However , against this must be set an extra local authority expenditure on services of 4.6 million , and a regional multiplier of only between 0.35 and 0.45 , to provide about 5 per cent of regional income .
21 Alternatively they could be set an exercise to find examples in annual reports and elsewhere of environmental reporting from a range of organizations or industries such as the Oil industry , the Chemical industry etc .
22 Against such examples of blatant petty mindedness must be set the tone of sympathetic understanding adopted by Lord Gorell and those closest to him in the RCM. the letter he sent out to regional chairmen and secretaries in December 1942 , is a fair indication of his philosophy :
23 Against this can be set the fact that the following chapters present very full accounts of their lives and works which should at least allow readers to make their own judgments , especially as we have included ( in an appendix to the book ) details of our ‘ SADS-L ’ procedure .
24 Against these points must be set the fatalism with which Law watched his country drift into civil war ; the patriotic party became begetters of rebellion , the party of order suborned crime and mutiny , and the leader of the opposition in parliament approved and supported the destruction of both the practice and the authority of parliament .
25 Against these must be set the costs of non-conformity such as unanticipated design changes , unnecessary maintenance and customer dissatisfaction .
26 Against this must be set the benefit of working with a consistent software interface , having better compatibility of data between programs and a simpler user interface .
27 Against this claim must be set the fact that many of the early ecologists were not , in any significant sense , evolutionists ; for all practical purposes they were still dealing with an essentially static world view .
28 Against these objections must be set the advantages of the rating system : payment is difficult to avoid , income is predictable , and collection is cheap and easy .
29 Against this has to be set the fact that in times of high inflation the real value of company debt diminishes over time .
30 On that will be set the tableau .
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