Example sentences of "a [noun] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources .
2 At the other end of this same wall of the church , beside the old graveyard , the movingly small sarcophagus of a child is set into a niche , with a heavy stone on top of it , under its own small arch and with some variously worn decoration of the stonework .
3 In France such a ceiling is set at 40 LUs in the Zone de Montagne ( 267 sheep ) and 30 LUs ( 200 sheep ) in the Zone de Piedmont .
4 A ceiling was set on revenue between 1988 – 1992 .
5 The Government-imposed safety limit for annual average exposure to Radon in a home is set at 200 becquerels per cubic metre of air .
6 His interest in the British empire was stimulated by a schoolmaster 's setting for a Latin essay prize a subject involving imperial federation .
7 A record was set on June 14 , 1944 by not only the 401st Bomb Group , but the whole of the Eighth — they put up 1,525 four-engined bombers and 908 fighter aircraft .
8 It is also true that there may be some doubt whether the privilege against self-incrimination can be used as a shield to prevent a process being set in train ‘ which may lead to incrimination or may lead to the discovery of real evidence of an incriminating character : ’ see Sociedade National de Combustiveis de Angola U.E.E. v. Lundqvist [ 1991 ] 2 Q.B .
9 Assuming without deciding that the privilege of self-incrimination can be used to prevent a process being set in train ‘ which may lead to incrimination or the discovery of real evidence of an incriminating character ’ I consider that the defendants are sufficiently safeguarded in the circumstances of this case .
10 A meeting was set for mid-April but , just before it , the whole policy was challenged by an adviser to the Government , Professor Alan Walters .
11 A record for a sword was set by lot 239 , a Fukuoka Ichimonji Tachi from the Kamakura period ( second half of the thirteenth century ) signed Ichi ; estimated at $200–300,000 , it sold for $380,000 ( £218,400 ) to a European private collector .
12 In order to prevent boredom and give motivation a theme is set by the conductor running the session .
13 The PKK claimed responsibility for two incidents in Istanbul on Aug. 28 in which a ferry was set on fire , damaging a bridge , and a bomb exploded at the British consulate-general .
14 In practice , for inner London at least , a trend was set for forms of mixed residential development in which blocks of flats were conspicuous : Churchill Gardens Estate , Pimlico , designed by Powell and Moya , contained 2,000 dwellings which combined eight-storey blocks of flats and maisonettes and three-storey terraces of housing and flats at an overall density of 200 persons per acre ; and the Somerford Grove Estate in Hackney , another layout of flats and houses , designed by Gibberd at a density 104 persons per acre .
15 A door was set in the wall hall-way down and , as she got closer to it , she spotted a brass plate bearing the single word ‘ Erasmus ’ .
16 A star was set upon my forehead .
17 ‘ Do you know if a date is set for Harriet 's funeral ?
18 UNITA concluded its seventh congress on March 17 , having re-elected Jonas Savimbi as its president , and stated that it would sign a ceasefire agreement as soon as a date was set for multiparty elections .
19 BLUNDERING builders who have made residents ' lives a misery are set to be hauled over the coals by angry councillors .
20 Right : Pathway round a lawn is set into grass , low enough to allow a mower to pass over it
21 When setting a straight line of netting on level ground it is possible that one stake every 8 yards may be sufficient , but when a net is set in a circular shape the stakes will need to be closer together .
22 Where a problem is set in a tort paper or in a contract paper involving both a possible tort and a possible breach of contract , both aspects of the matter should be discussed .
23 But we may well have seen them without registering that fact ; perhaps a film is set in a particular location and we are so involved in the plot that the background scenery enters only our subconscious mind .
24 A notch is set in the face of the rails and back so long stock can be placed across the full length of the fire .
25 In fact , if you always bear in mind that once a table is set for dining , lights lowered , candles lit , that table becomes an oasis , complete in itself , you can make a dining room wherever the table is .
26 Round the back , in the patio by the pool , a table was set with the remains of lunch .
27 A table was set for two .
28 A timetable was set for achieving free movement of goods and services within the Mercosur area by Dec. 31 , 1994 .
29 For A Lark is set for repeat
30 We expected that if a task was set as a group task , then it should be done as a group .
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