Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a monochrome viewfinder. use ‘ auto ’ or remember to check that you are set to the correct preset . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 3 | At low capacity , prices will frequently be high since they are set on the vertical part of the short-run marginal cost curves . |
| 4 | When the facts or events I mentioned above are put together in sequence , and when they are set into the background of recent developments , then a different and far more worrying interpretation begins to appear . |
| 5 | They are set by the market and reflect international trading conditions . |
| 6 | They were set for the garlic and the prawns , if they made it quick . |
| 7 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 8 | It 's set in the Ammer valley some 85kms from Munich , surrounded by grass and flower covered foothills that steepen and rear into high mountains . |
| 9 | This is called the fill light , and it is set on the other side of the camera to reduce the depth of the shadows and to soften the modelling of the subject . |
| 10 | It is set at the junction of four minor lanes , none of which has any indications of antiquity . |
| 11 | The novelistic density of Andrien 's film makes the well-meant Canadian picture Bye Bye Blues ( director , Anne Wheeler ) , which touches on somewhat related themes though it is set during the war , seem merely novelettish . |
| 12 | However , I can tell you that the title is The Life & Times Of Henry Pratt and it is set during the years 1936 to 1953 . |
| 13 | Again , it is set in the most spectacular countryside and well worth taking your camera to . |
| 14 | It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him . |
| 15 | It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog . |
| 16 | It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life . |
| 17 | Frighteningly true-to-life , and very funny , it is set in the fashion business and stars Joanna Lumley as a coked-up magazine editor and Jennifer Saunders as a drunken PR woman . |
| 18 | It is set in the Whitebrook Valley , just a mile from the Tintern Forest where the peace and quiet is disturbed only by a gently babbling brook and birdsong . |
| 19 | It is set in the middle of a modern housing estate and is a sheer oasis out of the past . |
| 20 | Omit the baskets on one side for a buffet table if it is set against the wall |
| 21 | Mr Dick Cheney , who now has the job , has always voted for rail-Mx , but that does not mean he is set against the Midgetman . |
| 22 | It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one . |
| 23 | She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground . |
| 24 | Canongate had its own Tolbooth , which has survived because it was set into the building line instead of blocking the thoroughfare . |
| 25 | It was set in the middle of a corn field , and she turned between the tall stalks of corn and followed the track up to the barn . |
| 26 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |