Example sentences of "set in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 2 | Set in Australia in the 1950s , The Delinquents celebrates the passionate love story of Lola Lovell , played by Kylie and Brownie Hansen , played by Charlie Schlatter . |
| 3 | Set in Uppsala at the beginning of the century , it tells the story of Bergman 's parents , and will be made for two different formats : as a four-part series for televsion , and as two feature films for cinemas . |
| 4 | Therefore , the relative prices of index futures appear to be set in accordance with the no-arbitrage condition , adjusted for transaction costs . |
| 5 | WE HAVE become used to seeing Thomas Keneally centre his novels on well-researched historical events , from the charge of Joan of Arc ( in the extraordinary Blood Red , Sister Rose of 1974 ) through the convict settlement of Australia , the American civil war and the negotiations that ended World War I to his Booker Prize-winner , Schindler 's Ark , set in Poland at the height of the holocaust , an unforgettable and moving book . |
| 6 | Winner of a prize at Cannes , and the most unexpectedly entertaining movie of the year is this very dynamic story set in London during the Silver Jubilee year of 1977 . |
| 7 | This Upper House would then be set in conflict with the House of Commons ; and the Lower House , although largely unreformed and unrepresentative , would have the deciding vote . |
| 8 | It is set in England in the twenty-first century . |
| 9 | It surpasses BPX 's old record , set in July for the A-24 well , which extended 2,500 feet . |
| 10 | It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ . |
| 11 | He plays David Jason 's son Kenny in the play set in Liverpool during the war and concerning a group of dockers who try to hide gold bullion from the Germans . |
| 12 | The film was not intended to be a realistic portrayal of the war : indeed , it was thematically based on Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , set in Africa at the turn of the century . |
| 13 | ‘ But his speech showed clearly the trap , and on the whole when traps are set in sight of the victim they do n't usually catch it . ’ |
| 14 | Plans to rebuild the Foreign Office appear to have been set in motion with the discovery of the poor state of the building and complaints from Palmerston that it was too small and had no rooms suitable for banquets and receptions . |
| 15 | The United Nations plan for independence will be set in motion from the beginning of this month , starting with a ceasefire between SWAPO and South Africa . |
| 16 | An A$970,000,0000 ( US$748,000,000 ) rescue operation by the state government had been set in motion before the announcement , which followed on from the collapse of the merchant banking section of the State Bank of Victoria in August 1990 [ see p. 37658 ] and that of Western Australia 's Rothwells merchant bank in November 1988 [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 17 | The processes of rethinking and reorganization set in motion by the scandals over unprotected children were slow and painful . |
| 18 | Ugly tricks were played on him , set in motion by the mother . |
| 19 | The laity had little interest in protecting church liberties and franchises , and the clergy were mainly set in motion by the archbishop 's concern for the harmony of the realm . |
| 20 | The market process , then , is set in motion by the results of the initial market-ignorance of the participants . |
| 21 | s This sudden explosion of the public into the private domain after 1914 , the inevitable result of profound structural changes in French society set in motion in the late nineteenth century , not only exploded the myth of an unchanging , clearly delineated set of social actors operating in a stable social environment , but also undermined the credibility of any attempt to separate the social from the psychological in the portrayal of individual characters . |
| 22 | Price of Publication : SHALL BE SET IN AGREEMENT WITH THE PUBLISHER 'S APPOINTED REPRESENTATIVE . |
| 23 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 24 | Using the lantern , Apanage lit candles set in sconces on the wall . |
| 25 | As a result of intense competition , bonds are often sold at a discount to attract investors ( the " reallowance " ) or else banks would sell their bonds in the grey market ( a market for bonds on which the issue price or syndicate allocations has not yet been determined , where quotes are set in relation to the unknown final price ) , which may oblige the lead manager to buy the bonds back in order to support the price . |
| 26 | Plans were set in action for the upgrading of publishing and education programmes and rejuvenation of the soldiery as well as the more obvious building and social programmes . |
| 27 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 28 | And that obviously creates the uplift in land values which finances the social structure that would be set in terms of the operational criteria for the new settlement . |
| 29 | In the third term a meeting is held between students and the Dean or Assistant Dean and Co-ordinator alone , following an agenda set in consultation with the Students ' Union . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ An orderly run-down will be set in hand over the next five years , leading to a smaller , more flexible stockpile consisting principally of ready-to-eat food rather than raw commodities . ’ |