Example sentences of "set [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the point that Hughie has set as one of his objectives for the next twelve months , is to get the group acting as one team , and not five or six separate teams . |
| 2 | ‘ The standards for cab design have been set for one person , so we foresee problems with having two seats , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 3 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 4 | The time set for one of the days is midnight , but it is not clear how long the Committee might sit for the first six days . |
| 5 | There were cabinets set against one wall , each filled with photos and biographical details from figures in history and the media , politics and sport — everyone from Clement Attlee to the Greek god Zeus . |
| 6 | The digital 24-hour clock , for instance , can be set with one hand . |
| 7 | And it 's set with one sovereign . |
| 8 | Its most surprising room , covered from ceiling to floor in 17th-century paintings , should be a salon or library ; instead , a dotty stone bathtub was set into one wall at a later date by a lady called Charlotte . |
| 9 | Bardul has a small stove with a chimney set into one flue here , where he brews Lustrian coffee ( he has many sealed tins of this here ) and cooks whatever he can find to eat . |
| 10 | He pulled up in front of the high iron grille gates barring the entrance to a drive , saw in his headlights a speakphone set into one of the brick pillars . |
| 11 | One night all the other dogs set upon one poor whippet in her bathroom and virtually tore it to pieces . |
| 12 | He is anxious not purely for Delphi , set in one of the last unspoilt valleys in Ireland , but for the whole wild sweep of west Mayo beyond it , up to the bustling tourist town of Westport . |
| 13 | Speaking of exploitation , students of the genre might care to consider Trapper County War ( Guild ) , an archetypal example of the backwoods nightmare , set in one of those supposed hillbilly communities where the locals , when not spitting out tobacco or imprecations , are banding together to hunt down interlopers and blast them to bits . |
| 14 | These grand buildings , both seminary and church , set in one of the most important squares in the city , could not have been a clearer statement from the victors of the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 15 | A Tea Garden , serving home made cakes , is set in one of the walled gardens . |
| 16 | A stimulating working environment set in one of England 's most attractive rural areas . |
| 17 | The Aldrovandi Palace is a pleasant hotel set in one of the quietest areas of Rome with all the necessary facilities for a relaxed and comfortable stay in the city . |
| 18 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 19 | This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward , the valuable compost . |
| 20 | If , as we believe to be the case , powers are being so exercised , then the issue of constitutional legitimacy which arises is quite simple : what is the value or use of a constitution based on and designed to ensure the maintenance of a system of limited government if it can , quite lawfully and even constitutionally , be set on one side ? |
| 21 | Bulstrode Whitelocke , English ambassador there in 1653 – 54 , was given £2,500 worth of the metal which was eventually cast into guns for the navy ( though he also received a miniature of Queen Christina in a diamond setting and the heir to the throne , the future Charles X , gave him a gold box set on one side with diamonds and with Charles 's portrait on the other ) . |
| 22 | Stir in the clam soup and set to one side . |
| 23 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 24 | Torque flow means the water is sucked into a 2p-sized hole in the base of the pump housing but never actually passes through the impeller , which is set to one side of the inlet chamber . |
| 25 | The sighting of Mary Magdalene is affirmed by Peter and John discovering the Empty Tomb , the burial cloths neatly set to one side . |
| 26 | Some of the keynames ( like Beep ) can only be set to one of two values , so Beep=yes means that Windows will beep every time there 's an error . |
| 27 | An alternative approach is for the instruction to scan from ( usually ) the most-significant to the least.significant end of the word , searching for the first bit set to one , and placing the number of that bit position in a suitable register , Notice the similarity between this operation and the " shift and count " instruction discussed in the last section . |
| 28 | Thus if bit i is set to one , condition i is true and subroutine i is to be entered . |
| 29 | The remaining one , set to one side , is trained on a large , easel-mounted blackboard on which the words , DOCTOR WHO . |
| 30 | accepted that if the subsequent appeal to the House of Lords were set to one side , there might be grounds for a relisting on the basis that the Court of Appeal had departed from well-established practice in resolving but one of the grounds of appeal , leaving outstanding points of appeal on which submissions had been made . |