Example sentences of "a [noun] set [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter has a lyric set round an argument which Bob not so much gives in to , but agrees to differ on … |
| 2 | My old dream of a play set in a boxing-ring , he wrote . |
| 3 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ A village set within a village ’ Aldea de Benahavis enjoys a genuine Spanish setting while remaining within fifteen minutes drive of the world famous marina Puerto Banus and Marbella 's finest golf courses . |
| 5 | The most dramatic direct action was taken at Luxulyan , a village set in a beautiful farming area with a local population mix of traditional farmers , well-heeled professionals and not so well-heeled smallholders . |
| 6 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 7 | The main focus of their sponsorship is totally to re-equip the department 's studio with state-of-the-art electronic flash and tungsten lighting equipment ; in exchange , KJP have a distribution site on campus , serving the Lothians , and a showpiece setting in a real studio situation . |
| 8 | Left : A shelf set above a radiator under a window will deflect warmth into the room , instead of letting it escape . |
| 9 | It looked like a mock-up set in a middle-class soap opera , shining with domestic trivia , very clean . |
| 10 | You have to design a character set for a computer with an 8-bit character . |
| 11 | A blackboard set on an easel at the rear of his boat proclaimed , Fishing Trips , Shark Fishing a Speciality . |
| 12 | The immediate and natural recourse of a woman set on a highly militant search after holiness , an escape from marriage and its social duties and a private life , would have been to enter a convent . |
| 13 | In Chapter 6 , we saw how to introduce a sequence set on a beach , beginning with establishing shots after which we grew gradually closer to the characters and their reactions to each other . |
| 14 | Given a military problem , Osbern of Eu and his men resembled nothing so much , Cormac thought , as a starving man with a knife set before a belly-piece of fat pork and an ale-horn . |
| 15 | A world set in a universe whose furthest reaches could be explored by any rambler with a pair of nailed boots , a packet of sandwiches , and a one-inch map . |
| 16 | It was late August now and Taipei remained intensely hot , a city set in a bowl ringed with mountains , hence its oppressive humidity . |
| 17 | The Zborowskis with Jeanne and her mother took rooms in Le Pavilion des Trois Soeurs , a villa set on a hill at the back of the village , two miles from the sea . |
| 18 | Highly purified porcine or human short-acting insulin is added to a small volume of normal saline and infused using a pump set at a rate dependent on blood glucose monitoring . |
| 19 | She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom . |
| 20 | How much nicer for a family or friends or even just oneself to sit at a table set for a meal ! |
| 21 | Practise each lick from memory with a metronome set at a very slow tempo . |