Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | a partly automatic system is better , in which the time for regeneration is set by the operator after tests to determine the water hardness . |
| 2 | Boswednack Manor is set between the Penwith Moors and the wild Cornish coastline , and combines natural history with meditation and organic food . |
| 3 | Dessert cutlery is set above the place mat ; butter knife is on the side plate . |
| 4 | Because the front bed is now the main bed , the main tension is set on the front carriage . |
| 5 | Is a prisoner serving a life sentence entitled to make representations before his tariff is set by the Secretary of State ? 4 . |
| 6 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 7 | The voltage gain of the amplifier is set by the ratio of resistor R1 to R1 at 11 times . |
| 8 | The action is set in the kind of country house , all wood panelling and flickering firelight , that normally provides the setting for a creaky stage thriller . |
| 9 | The scene is set for the events leading up to the Crucifixion . |
| 10 | The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be . |
| 11 | This shows accuracy , however , not prejudice : most of his work is set before the English navvies and engineers descended on Normandy . |
| 12 | A complete candidate string is only allowable if the end-of-word flag is set at the node in the tree for the last letter of the string ( see flowchart D2 in Appendix D ) . |
| 13 | If all such letters are found , the algorithm checks whether the resulting string is a word ( i.e. the end-of-word flag is set at the tree-node reached by the search ) . |
| 14 | Imagine an economy in which the wage rate for half its workers is set at the end of every even period to cover the following two periods , while the wage rate for the other half is set at the end of every odd period , again to cover the following two periods . |
| 15 | This glorious late medieval home is set in the beautiful Usk valley , midway between Abergavenny and Brecon . |
| 16 | The renewal fee is set by the Council with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 17 | In order to prevent boredom and give motivation a theme is set by the conductor running the session . |
| 18 | The second theme is set by the title — the self-made man — which harks back to Gordon Childe 's Man Makes Himself ( 1936 ) . |
| 19 | A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now . |
| 20 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 21 | The usual technique for checking that the microphone is set to the correct level after the audience arrives is to call , ‘ Can you all hear me ? ’ |
| 22 | It will be recalled from Chapter 3 that the Partnership Act provides that where no definite duration is set for the partnership any partner may " retire " by giving his co-partners notice , whereupon in the absence of any contrary agreement the firm is dissolved . |
| 23 | Since it was on 11th February in 1984 that I published the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris on the Christian meaning of human suffering , I believe it is significant that the same day is set for the celebration of the ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ . |
| 24 | I have never eaten brawn — no doubt I should do so — so can not comment on it except to say that it is made from the pig 's head which is simmered with herbs and spices ; the resulting meat is set in the naturally produced aspic . |
| 25 | The comedy is set in the men 's and women 's loos of a 1970s nightclub in Liverpool . |
| 26 | A large , double bowl sink served by pressure hot and cold fresh water is set in the fiddles peninsula with a trash bin beneath . |
| 27 | ‘ Our product and service standards are geared to what the customer requires , not set in concrete , ’ says ‘ The standard of service is set by the guest . |
| 28 | Early shipments have already gone out ; general availability is set for the end of the year . |
| 29 | The IX register is set to the address of this parameter table . |
| 30 | The IY register is set to the address of the machine code subroutine being called . |