Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] set [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , however , the farmer is entitled to demand that the countryside be viewed neither as a more extensive version of an urban recreation ground , nor as an arcadian idyll set aside for the pursuit of an indulgent atavism . |
| 2 | Hill Street takes a little longer , but Aspen is conspicuous ; a long white villa set just below the crest of a low , wooded ridge , surrounded by white walls with ornamental black railings and little ball-head shrubs standing in wooden tubs . |
| 3 | He watched intently as the tiny shutters of tree-bark opened wider and wider , and when they were fully open they revealed a small squarish window set neatly in the curve of the big branch . |
| 4 | As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 5 | Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were characterised as an ‘ extension of the conditions which the Soviet Union set earlier on the normalisation of conditions in the basin of the Indian Ocean , on transforming it into a zone of peace ’ . |