Example sentences of "set [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have thus found the study of pupil deviance a fertile valley for optimism to set beside the forbidding mountain-like permanence of theories of gender reproduction . |
| 2 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Set in the late seventeenth century , this story of a three-cornered relationship depends on active events vigorously described but ill supported by very generalised characters . |
| 6 | SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring . |
| 7 | Set on the beautiful sandy beach at Negambo , the modern Browns Beach Hotel is notable for its cuisine and entertainment . |
| 8 | The harp is here set to the dominant 7th in the key of E. Six bars ' rest provide time and to spare for setting the pedals . |
| 9 | The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command . |
| 10 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 11 | First , what are the world 's protected areas and how many square miles set against the 54,807,420 square miles of the earth 's land surface ? |
| 12 | With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics . |
| 13 | In fact , it is basically seen as the professionals banding together to protect their own — especially so when set against the various Royal College of Surgeons ' statements that testing of patients after operative accidents is reasonable whether or not the patient agrees . |
| 14 | His real problem , though , is with the film 's director , Alan Parker , who once made a thriller set against the American black civil rights struggle — with two white heroes . |
| 15 | Cloudberries , or knoutberries as they 're known in the Dales , studded the moor , set amongst the dark fleshy green leaves like clusters of red beads . |
| 16 | But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone . |
| 17 | His face was set into the perfect sympathetic mould now . |
| 18 | This viewpoint must be set within the wider political context . |
| 19 | CHESTERS ROMAN FORT AND MUSEUM Set in the ancient wooded valleys of Northumberland overlooking the River North Tyne , Chesters is one of the best preserved buildings on Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 20 | The protests had been triggered on Feb. 25 by the paper set in the 1992 General Access Test ( PGA ) ( university entrance examination ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s . |
| 25 | Penry looked as though he was about to burst into speech for a moment , then his face set in the familiar harsh lines , and without another word he turned on his heel and made for his sanctum , slamming the door behind him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Easily Accessible : Chepstow is an interesting and historical town set in the outstanding natural beauty of the Wye Valley . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He caught the man 's wrist , smashed the useless Uzi at the oval streaked face set in the black rubber cowl . |
| 30 | He took her arm , and short of starting an undignified fight she saw no option but to join him as he strolled towards the white-painted gate , set in the surrounding outer stone walls . |