Example sentences of "which [is] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the A453 and its attendant petrol station it is again worth paddling to lock 11 which is set between a container terminal and a sportsground lined with poplar trees which shed their downy white seed onto the canal in profusion at this time of year . |
| 2 | The key hurdle for the new Government will be the vote after the Queen 's Speech , which is set for May 6 , in which its legislative programme will be set out . |
| 3 | KINGS of video action , Dolph Lundgren and Jean Claude Van Damme , team up in Universal Soldier which is set for a December 29 release on tape after a good run at cinemas . |
| 4 | The event , which is set for Sunday May 6th has extra significance this year , as it coincides with the 20th anniversary of the United States ' twentieth tactical fighter wing being based in Oxfordshire , and master sergeant Bill Fonten is predicting even more crowds will turn up for the day when the U S base throws open its doors . |
| 5 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 6 | Torque flow means the water is sucked into a 2p-sized hole in the base of the pump housing but never actually passes through the impeller , which is set to one side of the inlet chamber . |
| 7 | Open systems are also likely to play a part in the Highlands economy which is set to be revitalised thanks to the ISDN telecommunications system recently installed by British Telecommunications Plc in the area . |
| 8 | The algorithm includes an extra variable called LR , for ’ Last Rule ’ , which is set to the rule which generated the current state N. |
| 9 | 60 people on the studio floor are involved in putting together ITV 's newest music show , which is set to be a hit . |
| 10 | Their Artistic Director , Emelie Fitzgibbon , directs this specially-commissioned play which is set against the background of the Medieval Crusades . |
| 11 | It comes in Dorothy L. Sayers ' Five Red Herrings , which is set among a group of artists . |
| 12 | The roots of lady 's bedstraw ( Galium verum ) , , produce an orange-red colour which is set by adding alum . |
| 13 | The first is the local community , through the Community Charge , which is payable by almost every adult ( some 35 million in all , as against 17 million who paid rates ) , and the level of which is set by each local authority ( though subject to ‘ capping ’ by central government ) . |
| 14 | I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government . |
| 15 | It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person . |
| 16 | Similarly , in La neige etait sale ( The Stain on the Snow ) which is set in an occupied country , has as its hero Frank Friedmaier — a thug who kills for fun and arranges the rape of a young woman who loves him . |
| 17 | Vargas Llosa 's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy , oscillates between third-person narration and monologue ( interior and spoken ) to bring out the gulf between the boys ' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self , and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings . |
| 18 | My first novel , Necropolis , which is set in my home town of Glasgow , will be published this May . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Of his several works of fiction , the best known is the novel , The House with the Green Shutters , which is set in Ochiltree . |
| 21 | From the outside the hotel , which is set in beautiful gardens , looked very grand with its beamed exterior and red and cream brickwork . |
| 22 | Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year . |
| 23 | We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy , which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it . |
| 24 | I therefore thought I would write to let your readers know about Brantridge Park — a beautiful mansion house once owned by Queen Victoria 's grand-daughter , Princess Alice , which is set in the heart of the Sussex countryside . |
| 25 | History in the primary school therefore presents the paradox of some fine work , which is set in an uncertain curricular pattern , and is too rarely part of a firm curriculum plan . |
| 26 | Some like " Diplomacy " , which is set in pre-First World War Europe , involve pupils in negotiations with other " countries " , setting territorial goals , and forming ( and often breaking ) alliances . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Up to 30 actors were involved in the fierce gun battle scene which is set in south Armagh but actually shot in Millisle , Co Down . |
| 29 | In comparison to this , ‘ The Disappearance ’ which is set in the 1970's is altogether a different type of community . |
| 30 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is set in the first decade of the twentieth century , in rural Georgia and most of the characters are black Americans as are those in ‘ The Friends ’ which is set in the seventies , in Harlem , New York . |