Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view was echoed by a BBC director general , Alasdair Milne , who remarked that the prescriptions for broadcasting set out in previous eras — even only a matter of a decade or so ago — were of little value in a rapidly changing social and political environment . |
| 2 | The paper set out in diagrammatic form a view of the factors causing an urban underclass ( see Figure 4. 1 ) . |
| 3 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
| 4 | Previously these costs were charged to the provision set up in prior years for the write-down on the withdrawal from property development . |
| 5 | To meet its target set out in forthcoming European Community [ EC ] legislation , the UK must recycle 80,000 tonnes of plalstic packaging each year . |
| 6 | The Regulations themselves set out only the main performance criteria with the technical detail set out in supporting documents . |