Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Set right on the Grand Canal this hotel is at the heart of Venice .
2 Set right in the heart of bubbling Benitses , it 's an ideal base for entertainment in the resort .
3 Set right in the centre of the Forte Village is the ‘ Terme del Parco ’ , an exclusive health and beauty centre which is an experience in itself .
4 Set mostly in America , it follows the plight of a poor Irish girl who marries into New York society and inherits a host of hostile relations .
5 The cottage was a pretty little place , furnished for comfort rather than style , with the living-room dominated by a huge fireplace , two big old armchairs set companionably at either side .
6 Set somewhere in the puritanical North Country early this century , it is performed on a stage covered in a lorry-load of Fison 's border compost .
7 The original plan to restore the house as a hotel has lapsed and new proposals have been lodged with the city council for dividing the house into flats with new front doors set randomly into many of the original window frames , and with no use for the spectacular hall and staircase .
8 For example , stylist Errol Douglas , from Edmonds salon in London ( tel : 071–589 5958 ) , showed us how curlers set randomly in long , straight hair with no layers will create loose waves .
9 The divers ' umbilicals are spooled on large wheels set vertically on either side of the bell .
10 There is , in other words , no simple ‘ culture of failure ’ or ‘ culture of resistance ’ , but rather a complex set of strategies set generally within the context of strong attachments to families and black cultural identities ( Fuller , 1982 , 1983 ; Dex , 1983 ; Riley , 1986 ; Mac an Ghaill , 1988 ) .
11 The heavy pine door of room 301 stood ajar , numerals depicted in hand-painted tiles set flush with the white-stucco wall .
12 Concrete fixings spoil the look of a lawn , and poles set directly into the earth often loosen in wet weather and begin to lean .
13 The new bass made use of Leo 's bolt-on maple neck , with the now traditional long-scale measurement ( the distance in which the top string can vibrate freely , ie. from the nut to where it passes over the bridge saddle ) of 34″ , and twenty frets set directly into the maple fretboard .
14 After several cups of coffee in The Golf Inn Hotel , the golfers set forth onto the links .
15 The Lionisers ' cup was thus already full well before they set forth to Gads ' Hill Place .
16 Set forth in 1823 by President James Monroe , the doctrine 's original thrust was designed to keep the Western Hemisphere free from European interference .
17 At the instigation of the Council , the Commission have proposed a legislative programme of some 48 measures to implement the principles and aims set forth in the Social Charter .
18 In a nutshell , ‘ Christian doctrines are accounts of the Christian religious affections set forth in speech ’ .
19 This declares that the Protocol applies only to those procedural acts set forth in Article 2(a) of the Convention .
20 ( 1 ) None of the objects set forth in any sub-clause of this Clause shall be restrictively construed but the widest interpretation shall be given to each such object , and none of such objects shall , except where the context expressly so requires , be in any way limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object or objects set forth in such sub-clause , or by reference to or inference from the terms of any other sub-clause of this Clause , or by reference to or inference from the name of the Company .
21 ( 1 ) None of the objects set forth in any sub-clause of this Clause shall be restrictively construed but the widest interpretation shall be given to each such object , and none of such objects shall , except where the context expressly so requires , be in any way limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object or objects set forth in such sub-clause , or by reference to or inference from the terms of any other sub-clause of this Clause , or by reference to or inference from the name of the Company .
22 ( 1 ) None of the objects set forth in any sub-clause of this Clause shall be restrictively construed but the widest interpretation shall be given to each such object , and none of such objects shall , except where the context expressly so requires , be in any way limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object or objects set forth in such sub-clause , or by reference to or inference from the terms of any other sub-clause of this Clause , or by reference to or inference from the name of the Company .
23 ( 1 ) None of the objects set forth in any sub-clause of this Clause shall be restrictively construed but the widest interpretation shall be given to each such object , and none of such objects shall , except where the context expressly so requires , be in any way limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object or objects set forth in such sub-clause , or by reference to or inference from the terms of any other sub-clause of this Clause , or by reference to or inference from the name of the Company .
24 Both parties enjoyed freedom to contract or not to contract and both parties exercised that freedom by contracting on the terms set forth in the written agreement and on no other terms .
25 ‘ According to the witnesses we have consulted , it seems likely that the growth expectations set forth in the Second National Plan ( 1954–57 ) were in contradiction to the conventional wisdom at the beginning of the 1950s , which expected that only low rates of growth were possible …
26 The King of Saudi Arabia is not exempt from the regulations set forth by the Shari'a .
27 You could 've let us use some of that eight , over eight million pounds that we have stuffed away , set aside to actually promote our social housing programme .
28 Then start reading — set aside at least one hour today .
29 Set aside at least half-an-hour each week to study a selected number ( do n't try to read them all ) of periodicals in the college Periodicals Room .
30 And all of us as it were , set aside as a block , all the second homes as holiday homes and say , those are as it were , outside this enquiry , we 'll leave them there .
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