Example sentences of "[is] set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | The slick production is set to the Simple Minds song ‘ Alive and Kicking ’ and features such stars as Bruce Grobbelaar , Gordon Strachan , Paul Stewart , Vinny Jones , John Wark and Anders Limpar . |
| 3 | For slip stitch the main carriage is set to slip so the cam lever is on S on Silver and Knitmaster machines , both Part buttons are in on Brother and the selection lever or dial is set to the central empty position on the Toyota models 901 and 950 . |
| 4 | Once everything is up and running drop into the BIOS set-up program and ensure that the Coprocessor field is set to the appropriate value to indicate the presence of a 387DX . |
| 5 | Another new work Orfeo ( pictured above ) by Kim Brandstrup deals with the myth in the manner of a baroque opera and is set to the computerised harpsichord of Ian Dearden . |
| 6 | Comdex/Sucesu is set for the Parque Anhembi and Center Norte in Sao Paulo , Brazil August 23-27 and expects 450 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees . |
| 7 | With all LIFFE contracts , the maintenance margin level is set at the initial margin level . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Because the front bed is now the main bed , the main tension is set on the front carriage . |
| 10 | Instead of coding the instruction length into the operation code , the word mark bit is set on the left-hand character of each instruction ( which contains the operation code ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Crow Wood is set below the north-western flanks of the Cleveland Hills , with a clear view to Roseberry Topping , a strangely menacing peak rising straight out of meadows and woodland . |
| 13 | the front bed is set into the correct position by moving the intermediary lever to the 1/4 pitch , or transfer position . |
| 14 | On the north side of the house the royal coat of arms is set into the classical pediment |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The lotus design , however is nearly identical to the flower which is set in the central square of a geometrical device in the St. Nicholas Street pavement ( pI . |
| 17 | ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is set in the Deep South of Alabama , where the majority of white men will not accept Negroes into a white society and it 's not only that the Negroes do not live amongst the whites , in some cases they are treated as if they are nobody . |
| 18 | The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be . |
| 19 | This important wharf , originally lined with warehouses only recently demolished , is set in the very heart of the city amid colleges and shops . |
| 20 | This hotel is set in the beautiful bay of Marina di Campo , about five minutes walk from the resort centre , and the same distance from the fine beaches . |
| 21 | This glorious late medieval home is set in the beautiful Usk valley , midway between Abergavenny and Brecon . |
| 22 | The buildings date to the early 13th century , and the abbey is set in the beautiful Llandeilo hills . |
| 23 | It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog . |
| 24 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |
| 25 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 26 | The tone is set by the continual use of the pose with head held high , back slightly arched , arms in closed 4th or a stretch fully upwards in 5th sur les pointes for Kitri or on demi-pointes for Basil . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The rateable value is set by the local valuation office , which is a branch of the Inland Revenue . |
| 29 | Long , graduated tails , in which all but the outermost feathers are elongated , generate the same lift as normal tails ( because maximum span is set by the outermost feathers and so does not change ) but substantially more drag , as elongation adds considerably to tail area . |
| 30 | Mohicans is set among the wild , untamed undergrowth and soaring , sheer mountained backdrop to the American war between France and England with each side sporting its native American allies . |