Example sentences of "[adv] set [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening . |
| 2 | In fact , the tea 's all set in the dining-room as usual and has been for … let me see ’ — she put her head on one side — ‘ how many years ? ’ |
| 3 | The early days of apartheid get rewritten as one ( white ) boy 's mythical slugfest for justice , all set against a backdrop of Big Scenery , psycho-Nazi Afrikaners , good-natured English liberals and nobly suffering blacks . |
| 4 | Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management . |
| 5 | Swimmers are well catered for with a heated main pool , a whirlpool bath and a shallow children 's pool all set within the grounds . |
| 6 | If London and the North both win , as expected , then the stage will be nicely set for a north-south shoot-out in their final game at Otley next Saturday . |
| 7 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 8 | However , this tablet was only set in the wall in 1456 , and is in conflict with an account written about events on 17 September 1387 . |
| 9 | It would mean a reduced workload for you so I honestly ca n't see why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 11 | Why are you so set against the idea ? |
| 12 | Normally a rubber-stamping exercise , representatives from all over the country come to discuss an agenda largely set by the party . |
| 13 | As C. D. Burns remarked in 1924 : " We have … developed in England a compromise by means of which the educational system is in great part a State system and the standard of education is largely set by the universities free from state control . " |
| 14 | This is normally set at the purchase price or the upper limit of the price if this can not be determined at completion . |
| 15 | The Hotel Metropole is prettily set on the water 's edge of Lake Como and its dining-room and terrace are specifically designed to take full advantage of this position , and give enchanting views across the lake . |
| 16 | Situated on the lakeside , this extremely popular hotel is prettily set against a backdrop of the spectacular green mountainside , and overlooks Riva 's main square , harbour and steamer landing stage . |
| 17 | Bedwetting baselines are best set over a period of at least 2 weeks because of the often intermittent nature of the problem . |
| 18 | More conclusive evidence comes from experiments in which the nucleus is removed from a fertilized egg , and is replaced by the nucleus of a cell which is already set on the road to becoming , for example , a gut cell or a skin cell . |
| 19 | In ‘ random mode ’ , the time controller will switch an appliance on and off at random intervals during the four ON periods already set for the programme mode . |
| 20 | ( March 10 was the date already set for the dissolution of Parliament in advance of the general election . ) |
| 21 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 22 | Many of these have tall towers , sometimes with spires , generally set at the west end . |
| 23 | The existing standard number , determined under section 15 of the Education Act 1980 and generally set at the intake of pupils to the school in 1979–80 ( a peak year ) , will be the new standard number — unless in 1989–90 , the year before the law changed , admissions exceeded the 1980 Act standard number . |
| 24 | The precedent thus set by the commons became of great significance in later political crises , for it gave the commons a means of dealing with unpopular royal officials and ministers , with the sanction of nonco-operation in the business of parliament if their charges were not heard . |
| 25 | The cost or price of borrowing or lending is thus set in the capital market . |
| 26 | How could he change his life , which seemed irretrievably set on a course of obscurity ? |
| 27 | The north doorway has a remarkable tympanum deeply set in the porch like that at Autun . |
| 28 | Community liaison committees tend to steer clear of contentious issues , and the agenda is usually set by the police . |
| 29 | Reference can be made to standards usually set by the agency ‘ in cases of this kind ’ , or attention drawn to practice in past cases . |
| 30 | Having photographed these averagely attractive , effectively anonymous members nestled amongst feathers , emerging from a bunch of Iris buds , tucked up with a wad of £10 notes , or wrapped up in black fishnet material , the stage is ostensibly set for the viewer to compare these peculiar juxtapositions with those more commonly seen in the media where the female body is used instead . |