Example sentences of "set on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wants the Interim Advisory Committee , which will determine the profession 's pay increase for the 1990-91 year , to be allowed to remedy the error by using new money over and above the £600m limit the Government has set on the global sum available for any increase . |
| 2 | An extra planetary gear set on the end , together with a new rear casing , provides the extra , overdriven ratio . |
| 3 | A large ledger was opened and horn-rimmed glasses set on the manager 's nose . |
| 4 | Set on the home front , it follows a crew of firefighters working through the night to control the blaze at an East End warehouse . |
| 5 | The film , set on the beaches , in the bars and discos and in the shabby tourist rooms of downtown Acapulco , is distinguished by a central performance from Jackie Burroughs ( also one of the directors ) that is an astonishing tour de force of which it is impossible to speak too highly . |
| 6 | Poland 's next general election is not due until 1993 , but there are local ones on May 27th — and meanwhile the government is already well set on the capitalist road . |
| 7 | Suspension on all models now follows the trend set on the previous V-6 — independent double wishbones and torsion bars up front ; links and coils behind . |
| 8 | Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage . |
| 9 | More conclusive evidence comes from experiments in which the nucleus is removed from a fertilized egg , and is replaced by the nucleus of a cell which is already set on the road to becoming , for example , a gut cell or a skin cell . |
| 10 | It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one . |
| 11 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 12 | The defeat of Labour was greeted with relief by health service managers , but critics said the NHS was now set on the road to privatisation and a two-tier service . |
| 13 | For the first time limits are being set on the number of hours which may be worked continuously . |
| 14 | The Beau Rivage is a comfortable hotel set on the front in Baveno , opposite the promenade and close to the centre of the village . |
| 15 | St Gilgen is set on the north west shore of the Wolfgangsee . |
| 16 | St Wolfgang is the most famous of the resorts set on the shores of Lake Wolfgang . |
| 17 | When Tommy was interviewed at the time , he made it clear that he was a man with his sights firmly set on the future , and so it is no surprise that in 1991 , Tommy Rodgers is again setting new standards . |
| 18 | A lively family Club set on the most beautiful beach in Majorca , offering simple accommodation and a wide range of facilities for everyone . |
| 19 | Following the rebuilding after World War II one last ring was created , not set on the line of an ancient set of bulwarks , but designed with the future in mind . |
| 20 | Set into the floor near the entrance is a brass strip running the width of the building to a sundial set on the left wall . |
| 21 | San Babila is set on the ruins of a fourth-century church , and that itself was built on the foundations of a pagan temple to the sun . |
| 22 | Strategically set on the headland above the River Vltava , the castle commanded the trade routes between Vienna and Kiev , a perfect site therefore for communication and defence . |
| 23 | Charley Hoskins had been trained as a blacksmith but , like so many Saltash boys , had his heart set on the sea and it was when he had joined the Royal Navy that he met Ben Bellaser . |
| 24 | A pail of cold water for washing was set on the floor so that performers had to bend over to use it . |
| 25 | Great store was set on the word ‘ training ’ . |
| 26 | The objective of this special orientation , and similar arrangements in several other Mesoamerican cities , were the points on the horizon where the Sun rose and set on the day it passed directly overhead . |
| 27 | With both Maazel and Karajan the point is readily made , but their eyes are clearly set on the internal music argument . |
| 28 | It was the custom when a foreign invader stepped on French soil for the relics of Denis and his companions to be set on the altar , from which they personally conducted the defence of the realm . |
| 29 | But strange , because although Fender have chosen to include the full vintage set on the audience-orientated front side of the guitar , the spring cavity cover on the reverse side is still boring old white . |
| 30 | The cottage is set on the highest ridge of the Chiltern Hills and is surrounded by the most glorious countryside . |