Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 32 | All that is required is simply to retard the ignition timing by 3 degrees ( are you sure that your ignition timing is spot on , anyway — try unleaded and if the engine does n't ‘ pink ’ , you 're OK , but have the ignition properly set at the next service ) . |
| 33 | After 13 weeks of inpatient care the health authority would charge a fixed fee , which could be set at the eightieth percentile of the fees charged by the private sector within a set area , or £500 per week . |
| 34 | A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 37 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |