Example sentences of "set [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 2 | That was no small gain to set in the balance against the more obvious Erastianism of the new system . |
| 3 | Leave them to set in the fridge until ready for serving . |
| 4 | For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain . |
| 5 | A grain of dust to set beside the mountain of several billion other deaths … |
| 6 | ‘ All set for the get-in at the Variety tonight ? ’ |
| 7 | As yet , OmniPoint is still in its first release , with OmniPoint 2 set for the end of 1994 . |
| 8 | The company , it seems , has no stomach to fight religious wars any longer and has meetings scheduled with Unix System Labs this week , and the Open Software Foundation next , at which some kind of rapprochment is likely — though not an SVR4 kernel development — with product announcements set for the end of the month . |
| 9 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 10 | Set against the background of the 300-year old home of the Duke of Buccleuch , the event attracted top competitors from all over the world including British National champion , George Bowman of Penrith . |
| 11 | Set with the pointer on the block in line with the scribed mark on the pump base . |
| 12 | Set into the floor near the entrance is a brass strip running the width of the building to a sundial set on the left wall . |
| 13 | The Monkey-boy , hastily found acceptable clothes , was up on the box , his dressing-case — the inherited , wealthy proof of his existence — set inside the coach like an ark , an altar . |
| 14 | Set in the heart of the Lagan Valley Regional Park , this house also provides the Parks Department 's main information and education centre . |
| 15 | Set in the heart of Newmarket , the horseracing capital of the world , the recently extended museum 's six galleries are packed with exhibits that will take you back to the origins of racing … when Charles II rode in matches across the glorious heath . |
| 16 | Set in the heart of the country , mid way between Pescara and Rome , Ovindoli remains relatively undiscovered and completely unspoilt . |
| 17 | Set in the heart of Rome , there is a summery breakfast room and a small lounge-bar . |
| 18 | Set in the centre of the altar stone 's upper surface was a small depression that was just the right size for a normal-sized version of the device . |
| 19 | The figures are both shocking and tragic , but set in the context of 19th-century political convulsions in France they are relatively mild . |
| 20 | But what an officer will know of his colleagues ' districts compared with his own will tend to be particularistic — of salient pollution problems — set in the context of an undetailed and generalized apprehension of the kind of patch a colleague looks after . |
| 21 | THEY said the sun would never set on the Gateway to Wallasey . |
| 22 | Set beside the estuary of the river Dovey in Cardigan Bay , it is a 6,445-yard par-71 , but naturally Wee Woosie goes round in the mid-60s . |
| 23 | Set at the height of Victoria 's rule , the story revolves around three Oxford undergraduates who have nothing better to do than court young females , have parties and be awfully brassic . |
| 24 | SET AT THE mouth of the mighty River Nile , Cairo is a convenient departure point for safari tours to see the wildlife of the Eastern Sahara Lake District . |
| 25 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
| 26 | This self-reliance gives them a competitive edge when the base rate ( set by the Bank of England ) , is high , while when it is low , societies can switch to these wholesale funds to cut costs . |
| 27 | A second reason is to show how recent British security developments are based on precedents set during the containment of the Irish conflict . |
| 28 | The Council of Ministers announced on March 7 that June 12 had been set as the date for multiparty local and provincial elections ( to the assemblées populaires communales and the assemblées populaires de wilayas ) , postponed from December 1989 and then again from March 1990 [ see p. 37218 ] to allow more time for newly-created political parties to prepare their campaigns . |
| 29 | Editor , — As R Buckland points out , the clinical terms project is set as the foundation of the NHS 's information technology strategy and is supported by professional bodies . |
| 30 | This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing . |