Example sentences of "set at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Here is the archetypal mid-Wales upland village , set at a confluence of river valleys among tree-lined pastures and overlooked by forested hills . |
| 4 | Partly because of Treasury pressure to limit the overall cost of the scheme and partly due to ageist assumptions concerning the needs of older people , the National Insurance pension was set at a level of bare subsistence rather than adequate maintenance . |
| 5 | Within the UK the threshold has been set at a level of £135,000 , above which any business supplying or acquiring goods will have to complete this form on a monthly basis . |
| 6 | ( The July OPEC production ceiling , set at a total of just under 22,500,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , had been suspended since late August — see p. 37641 — and the Financial Times of Dec. 14 estimated that current overall OPEC output was 400,000 bpd above the ceiling , despite the loss of 4,300,000 bpd of Iraqi and Kuwaiti exports . ) |
| 7 | She went into the drawing-room , and flung back her veil , for the first time revealing a pair of remarkable green eyes , set at a slant like a cat 's or lynx 's . |
| 8 | The manat , which would circulate in parallel with the rouble , was set at a value of 1 manat=10 roubles . |
| 9 | Most annuals can be placed straight into the propogator , providing it is set at a temperature within the stated range , but some need to be covered with a polythene bag or sheet of glass . |
| 10 | The new Kuwaiti dinar was set at a rate of US$1.00=KD0.2857 , the rate applicable before the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion . |
| 11 | This was originally set at a minimum of 50% and a maximum of 100% , although recent reclassifications have increased the minimum échelle to 80% . |
| 12 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 13 | A new lobby has been constructed deliberately set at an angle to the older part of the building , as an aid to disguising the ‘ join ’ between the two sections . |
| 14 | I experimented for a while with rudders on drifters , working on the principles of sailing crafts where the vane ( sail ) is set at an angle to the rudder ( submerged stem section ) so that although the wind would blow the vane at the same angle the offset rudder would make the float cut across the surface carrying it out into the lake even though the wind blew along the bank . |
| 15 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 16 | The program begins with the target position ( in steps ) loaded into COUNT and a POINTER Set at the address of the first delay value , ACCST . |
| 17 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |
| 18 | These are the highest within the EC , having been set at the top of the EC recommended range . |
| 19 | In April of the same year it was clear from the interim report of the committee that recommendations would be proposed whereby building development would be controlled throughout the country and that compensation for the public acquisition of land would be set at the standard of 31 March 1939 . |
| 20 | The 1991 budget , set at the equivalent of US$2,900 million , was approved by the Congress on Feb. 7 , 1991 . |
| 21 | The limit between nodular hyperplasia of endocrine ( argyrophil ) cells and carcinoid tumours was set at the size of 0.5 mm according to the classification of Solcia et al . |
| 22 | Shaw 's Tabard Inn formed part of the Bedford Park Garden Suburb , a speculative development in the new ‘ Queen Anne Style ’ ; The Tabard , set at the centre of the development , forms part of the ‘ Village Street ’ opposite the Church of St. Michael and All Angels . |
| 23 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 24 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 25 | Run a stringline from the top of the bank to a post set at the foot of the bank , checking for square . |
| 26 | Six kilometres ( 4 miles ) on from Schwanden the main valley road reaches the cantonal capital , also named Glarus , set at the foot of 2,331m ( 7,646ft ) high Glarnisch . |
| 27 | Bonuses are determined by the Management Development and Remuneration Committee for the achievement of budgeted profit targets and personal objectives which are set at the beginning of the financial year . |
| 28 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is set at the beginning of this century . |
| 29 | HILL FARM HERBS is set at the back of an old stone farmhouse in the Northamptonshire village of Brigstock . |
| 30 | This friendly Club Hotel is set at the edge of a lagoon at the centre of a resort complex offering a range of facilities . |