Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 . |
| 2 | Set in the early 1980s , and about liberal politicians cleaning up a small town , it will , Beswick hopes , ‘ do for Little Rock what John Major did n't do for Huntingdon ’ . |
| 3 | Set in the late 1950's — at the end of post-war rationing and at the beginning of an era of new affluence — this new production of A TASTE OF HONEY , an off-beat comedy drama , brings to the stage the lives of five people living in the Manchester area . |
| 4 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 5 | Turning to the criticisms of the administrative machine through which the political leadership operates , the pattern was set in the early 1960s by Professor Brian Chapman 's British Government Observed . |
| 6 | One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s . |
| 7 | ANNABEL SCIORRA will play the Mexican activist artist Frida Kahlo in The Brush Of Anguish , set in the turbulent 1930s and directed by Latino Luis Valdez . |
| 8 | The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses . |
| 9 | The report , which in previous years was called British Lifestyles , shows the trends set over the last ten years and predicts changes in the next decade . |
| 10 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |