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

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1 The park is set in 12 acres of a 156 acre farm and since its opening three seasons ago , it has proved to be one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country .
2 Moreover , the direction is set by powerful clues or ‘ logics ’ gradually established in the organization which enable subsystems to bound their search for strategies .
3 The trial is set for May .
4 The winner is set to be some half a million pounds better off .
5 Sheriff John Young told Middleton , 36 , of Monkchester Road , Walker , that the sentence was set against the background of a well-planned bank raid .
6 Pearse , the former Wallaby flanker , intends to establish his own sports marketing company and the NSWRU is set to be his first client .
7 The Giordano is set in gardens near Ravello 's main square and the beautiful Villa Maria is five minutes walk away overlooking the coast .
8 Landscaped with elegant villas dating from the turn of the century , the resort is set between the startling beauty of the Apuan Alps and the gently shelving Tyrrhenian Sea .
9 Once the text is set in metal , corrections mean retyping a whole line .
10 Most of the graphs were set on a steep , ascending curve , apart from the Husayn twins ' ; they started in the top left hand corner and were headed , inexorably , for the far right end of the bottom line .
11 There is an opportunity to relate theory to practice , and as the teaching is set at the student 's level of understanding and experience , time can be spent on aspects which she finds difficult .
12 To begin with , all switches except the inputs are set at random .
13 Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in .
14 ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’
15 The building was set in its own garden , since vanished , and was built of red brick .
16 Associate producer and star Denis Lawson — best known for Local Hero — said that filming of The Dead of Winter had been postponed and might even be switched from Mull to Denmark , even though the story is set on Mull .
17 The story is set in the South-west of America , around the Mississippi river .
18 The town in which the story is set in has a close knit black community who are very cautious about commenting around white people , as feelings of racial prejudice were very strong .
19 The cottage is set on the highest ridge of the Chiltern Hills and is surrounded by the most glorious countryside .
20 The following succession of chords necessitates a change from A to A ♯ and no more if the harp is set to the notes D , E ♯ , F ♯ , G ♯ , A , B ♯ , C ♯ , for they are then written thus :
21 They do not tell us why the level is set at its current average rather than some much higher or lower figure .
22 I hastily found the options screen and saw that the level was set to a ‘ ten years ’ old setting .
23 But if the operators are set against discounting it will not prevent the agencies from doing some on their own account .
24 The play is set in a imaginary African Republic , Kambawe .
25 The play is set in an old Thames warehouse which has been converted into a fringe theatre ( the seats certainly look authentically uncomfortable ) .
26 The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses .
27 The play is set in 1850 and the set reflected good attention to period with well chosen props .
28 The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest , which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent .
29 The play is set in the mid-1950s , and it explores the themes of lust , jealousy and guilt in the melodramatic style of that period .
30 ‘ You know the play 's set in the twenty-first century , ’ Josh explained .
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