Example sentences of "setting [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dishwasher manufacturers use a standard place setting as a guide to how much machines will hold . |
| 2 | Basic machines use the slip stitch setting as a method of knitting Fair Isle . |
| 3 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 4 | His interest in the British empire was stimulated by a schoolmaster 's setting for a Latin essay prize a subject involving imperial federation . |
| 5 | Follow the leader : Bamert sees the requiem , setting for a poem by Walt Whitman , as complicated but seamless |
| 6 | I I observe that the Liberal Democrats have made a complete U turn in their previous adherence to providing a steady stream of services to the people of Oxford , and by setting for a budget below the capping level you are taking out of funds available to people things that do n't necessarily have to be taken out . |
| 7 | Within any such population it is possible to identify four subgroups : long-stay residents ; those who die shortly after admission , those who return home after a period of convalescence and those who move to another long-term care setting after a short stay . |
| 8 | Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens . |
| 9 | At the moment I am involved in setting up a mountain bike orienteering scheme or ‘ Trail Quest ’ . |
| 10 | They include setting up a new track authority and consumer committees to safeguard the interest of passengers . |
| 11 | Tonight they 're setting up a road check in the area where he was murdered . |
| 12 | Well , almost all of them , she corrected herself , her blue eyes darkening and her mouth setting into an uncharacteristically harsh line . |
| 13 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 14 | Harris conceded the first point in setting with an error , but then reeled off three classic winners , a volleyed kill and two drives which flashed past Martin in midcourt . |
| 15 | I examined them one by one — drinks , thermometer , stethoscope , blood-pressure machine , plaster cut-down setting , emergency transfusion setting in a sealed tin , emergency tracheotomy setting in another , emergency hypodermic setting on the final sterile-towel-covered tray . |
| 16 | The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars . |
| 17 | The main focus of their sponsorship is totally to re-equip the department 's studio with state-of-the-art electronic flash and tungsten lighting equipment ; in exchange , KJP have a distribution site on campus , serving the Lothians , and a showpiece setting in a real studio situation . |
| 18 | The second objection was the problem of agenda setting in a participatory democracy . |
| 19 | Casual and relaxed , yet very exclusive , Is Morus has an idyllic eucalyptus and pine wood setting beside a private sandy beach . |
| 20 | ENGLISH RIB knitted using a non-selective , directional , tuck setting on a chunky machine . |
| 21 | I like the sun setting on a calm sea — ’ His breath hissed through his teeth . |