Example sentences of "set [prep] the [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A grain of dust to set beside the mountain of several billion other deaths … |
| 4 | As yet , OmniPoint is still in its first release , with OmniPoint 2 set for the end of 1994 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Set in the heart of the Lagan Valley Regional Park , this house also provides the Parks Department 's main information and education centre . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Set in the heart of the country , mid way between Pescara and Rome , Ovindoli remains relatively undiscovered and completely unspoilt . |
| 11 | Set in the heart of Rome , there is a summery breakfast room and a small lounge-bar . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The figures are both shocking and tragic , but set in the context of 19th-century political convulsions in France they are relatively mild . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A second reason is to show how recent British security developments are based on precedents set during the containment of the Irish conflict . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A £2,000,000 target had been set for the Battle of Britain Wings Appeal in the full knowledge that our sister charity , the RAF Benevolent Fund was launching its £20,000,000 ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , and that the Association would be offering as much support as possible to that . |
| 22 | And stargazers who slavishly read those horoscopes are set for the sign of eternal damnation . |
| 23 | Thus , the stage was set for the disappearance of the colleges of education as a separate sector of higher education . |
| 24 | Since it was on 11th February in 1984 that I published the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris on the Christian meaning of human suffering , I believe it is significant that the same day is set for the celebration of the ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ . |
| 25 | Terah dies , and the stage is set for the story of Abraham ( the new name records God 's promise to make this man the father of many nations , 17:5 ) . |
| 26 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 27 | However , difficulties may arise if a strict time limit is set for the publication of the decision , and the decision is published after it has expired : it may suit one of the parties to refuse to accept it on that ground . |
| 28 | A time-scale should be set for the achievement of each of the steps identified , accompanied by a system of monitoring which is independent of those concerned with accomplishing the aim . |
| 29 | 31st December 1992 is the date set for the achievement of an ambitious programme . |
| 30 | By then , however , the stage was set for the rise of the true State . |