Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ltd. , Crown jewellers since 1,843 , this , including an eight-piece Abercorn kettle and tea set on a silver tray , was ordered by Lutyens and its cost of £280 was paid in cash by Sir Herbert Morgan . |
| 2 | Jessamy stared at him for a moment , then her mouth set into a line that was almost as determined as his own . |
| 3 | It stood there , hunched and spindly , the weight held threateningly in one tiny hand , its big , dark , staring eyes fixed murderously on him , its mouth set in a snarl of deadly intent . |
| 4 | He leaned forward as he spoke , his tanned forehead pleated into a concerned frown and his mouth set in a line of sober sincerity . |
| 5 | On a modest few hours climbing we had sampled two new crags and climbed fine routes — a melange of anxiety , adventure and delight set against a backdrop of a wild , lonely coastline . |
| 6 | A representation of ‘ Adam and Eve ’ by Wtewael should fetch $700,000–900,000 ( £466,000–600,000 ) and a still-life of fruit in a wicker basket set in a stone niche by Juan van der Hamen y Leon $250,000–350,000 ( £166,000–233,000 ) . |
| 7 | Supreme of chicken set on a casserole of devilled pimiento |
| 8 | Menu Clear beef and celery soup Supreme of chicken set on a casserole of devilled pimiento Crème brulée with exotic fruit |
| 9 | Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | An assignment consists of any problem solving exercise set by a teacher/lecturer with clear guidelines and specified length . |
| 12 | A revision exercise set within an environment indicates which variables or considerations are pertinent , whereas in true problem-solving , the environment is less well defined and the identification of pertinent information is a difficult aspect of solution . |
| 13 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 14 | The happy faces of many , the vacant stare of astonishment of others , and the alarm depicted on the countenance of some , gave variety to the picture ’ , was the scene set by an onlooker . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To illustrate this , here 's a II/V sequence down a cycle of 4ths , dealing with one string set at a time . |
| 17 | Turkey vultures are common on Kidney Island and are usually to be seen soaring on two-tone black and translucent wings , peering down at visitors with a calculating look in their beady eye set in a head of bare red skin . |
| 18 | A glorious town set in a valley below steep rugged hills . ’ |
| 19 | Left : A shelf set above a radiator under a window will deflect warmth into the room , instead of letting it escape . |
| 20 | A blackboard set on an easel at the rear of his boat proclaimed , Fishing Trips , Shark Fishing a Speciality . |
| 21 | You have to design a character set for a computer with an 8-bit character . |
| 22 | The rampart front itself was subsequently cut away to accommodate a massive stone wall set on a foundation of limestone , clay and rubble lenses , which presumably incorporated the existing tower at the south-east gate . |
| 23 | — ITV plans to take on the BBC in the lunchtime ratings battle with a new soap set in a North-East seaside community . |
| 24 | We will usually be treating individual instructions or groups of instructions in terms of the facilities that they control , so it is worth saying a few words here about the instruction set as a whole . |
| 25 | ( c ) A third approach is to divide the instruction set into a number of groups , and provide a different instruction format for each group . |
| 26 | 41 ( Right ) Jewellery used for portraiture : ( a ) Caesar appears on a gilded emblem set in an iron ring , worn by a member of the Caesarian faction in the civil wars following the Dictator 's murder in 44 BC ( above left ) . |
| 27 | My old dream of a play set in a boxing-ring , he wrote . |
| 28 | The latter has a lyric set round an argument which Bob not so much gives in to , but agrees to differ on … |
| 29 | She 'd been so immersed in the music , letting it wash over her , uplifting her , that she had n't even realised that the car had turned into a short driveway to stop outside a luxurious chalet-type building set in a clearing of beech trees . |
| 30 | There was also a small washbasin set into a vanity unit with a cupboard underneath for storing spare toilet rolls and various cleaning materials . |