Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel : ‘ The fathers eat sour grapes , and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ ? |
| 2 | The visiting of the iniquity of their fathers on to succeeding generations in the Third Commandment , the banning of ‘ he that hath a flat nose ’ , and the writing ‘ the fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ are suggestive of the stigmata of congenital syphilis . |
| 3 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 4 | Evocative , yes , but do n't think that today 's Ireland is set in some quaint emerald aspic . |
| 5 | Hartlepool then comprised 6,000 people , no longer a simple fishing village since dock facilities had recently brought it into the coal-export and timber-import trades ; but Jackson 's sights were set on the adjacent hamlet of Stranton , with a population of 350 . |
| 6 | John Matcham 's name was set by the printer and the ‘ woollcomber ’ pulled the press . |
| 7 | Matthew 's recipes are set to be included in a cookery book being compiled by Sainsbury 's . |
| 8 | Chaucer 's tale is set in the north-east of France , the true home of the French fabliaux , its geographical range stretching from Paris to Bruges . |
| 9 | Kronweiser 's suspicions were set at rest , and he had gone back to the States . |
| 10 | Below us the broad terraces of Hatshepsut 's temple were set into the curving amphitheatre of the cliffs . |
| 11 | Samaraweera cites Leonard Woolf 's novel The Village in the Jungle to support his characterization of the average litigant as ignorant of court procedure , but Woolf 's novel was set in an impoverished , dying and atypical village in the dry zone . |
| 12 | When Bourdieu 's approach is set against the range of other approaches discussed in this chapter , certain highly divergent tendencies become evident . |
| 13 | The full release of Data Connection 's SNAP-APPN is set for the second quarter of the year . |
| 14 | Last night 's mystery was set in an open prison so relaxed that you wondered if the female governor went round tucking up the inmates at night . |
| 15 | In most companies , top people 's pay is set by a group of non-executive directors . |
| 16 | The governor 's pay is set by the bank 's remuneration committee of external directors . |
| 17 | The girl 's face was set into rigid lines from the garden , robbing them of all expression . |
| 18 | Annabel Hogan 's face was set in warning lines . |