Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] set [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This quotation gives a vivid insight into how someone who is basically sympathetic towards black people can come to adopt a racialist language in order to conform to the expectations of the group , which are set by a minority of active racists . |
| 2 | After the A453 and its attendant petrol station it is again worth paddling to lock 11 which is set between a container terminal and a sportsground lined with poplar trees which shed their downy white seed onto the canal in profusion at this time of year . |
| 3 | KINGS of video action , Dolph Lundgren and Jean Claude Van Damme , team up in Universal Soldier which is set for a December 29 release on tape after a good run at cinemas . |
| 4 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 5 | It comes in Dorothy L. Sayers ' Five Red Herrings , which is set among a group of artists . |
| 6 | Vargas Llosa 's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy , oscillates between third-person narration and monologue ( interior and spoken ) to bring out the gulf between the boys ' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self , and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings . |
| 7 | Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year . |
| 8 | We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy , which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it . |
| 9 | Similarly , in La neige etait sale ( The Stain on the Snow ) which is set in an occupied country , has as its hero Frank Friedmaier — a thug who kills for fun and arranges the rape of a young woman who loves him . |
| 10 | History in the primary school therefore presents the paradox of some fine work , which is set in an uncertain curricular pattern , and is too rarely part of a firm curriculum plan . |
| 11 | She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver . |
| 12 | I went outside and stood in front of the police station , which was set on a hill . |
| 13 | In early mosques , the focal point for prayer was a sacred stone ( the qibla ) , which was set in a wall facing Mecca ; it later became customary to enclose this stone within an arch-shaped niche known as a mihrab , or prayer niche . |
| 14 | A pot of ch'ban , a beverage which Alexei thought was quite similar to earth stock coffee , bubbled quietly on a burner which was set in a shallow bowl of sand on the table at her side . |
| 15 | The fourth task was to get across a piece of rope which had been tied around three trees which was set in a triangle . |
| 16 | Imhotep , however , created for his king a six-stepped pyramid tomb , which rose to a height of 204 feet ( 62.2m ) and which was set within a rectangular walled enclosure containing various ritual buildings , the whole funerary complex being constructed with stone . |