Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some implements are set with the heads at different angles to make them easier to manoeuvre with one hand . |
| 2 | His initials are set in the cobbles in front of the tower . |
| 3 | Fees are set by the owners under Acts of Parliament , and vary widely . |
| 4 | Yet these contexts are set by the parameters of political discourse in exactly the same manner as the conceptual vocabulary of academics and practitioners structures their own treatment of the same issues . |
| 5 | As confidence grew , partly as a result of the student impression studies , so techniques were employed which permitted cross-institutional comparison , which enabled graduate employer samples to participate in evaluation , and which allowed the appraisal of course realities such as grading patterns and resources to be set alongside the studies of course perceptions . |
| 6 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 7 | To grasp their real magnitude these figures need to be set against the incomes of other social groups . |
| 8 | The body is undoubtedly ply , which has a sort of push-me-pull-you reputation in this department — the benefits of low cost being set against the disadvantages of poorer tone-producing capabilities . |
| 9 | A badger protection group says it fears that savage dogs are being set upon the animals in a remote area . |
| 10 | In an offer for sale a fixed price is set for the shares to be offered to the public by an issuing house for the company concerned . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A visit to the castle at Loule , where the tourist information office is set in the remnants of the castle walls between two towers , elicited the answer to my enquiry whether there were Roman or Moorish sites on farms nearby . |
| 13 | the timetable which was set for the tasks of the project , and |
| 14 | Round the back , in the patio by the pool , a table was set with the remains of lunch . |
| 15 | The cat was set among the pigeons in 1952 when , von Neumann notwithstanding , David Bohm constructed a specific example of a hidden variable theory which did agree precisely with conventional quantum mechanics in all its empirical predictions . |
| 16 | The crucial boundary between what is ‘ Christian ’ and what is ‘ pagan ’ was set by the limits of official clerical tolerance . |
| 17 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |