Example sentences of "set [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the point where a number of difficult areas converge : society 's ambivalence about sexuality and people with learning difficulties ; a tradition of segregation ; a lingering concern about eugenics ; a shameful history of ( enforced ) sterilisation ; a proper concern about vulnerable children ; and their right to due protection from neglect and abuse — set against an increasing recognition that people with learning difficulties should enjoy the same rights to an ordinary life in our society as anyone else , including the rights to be parents . |
| 2 | Set in an exclusive residential area of Rome , 1¼ miles from the Spanish Steps , the Hotel Claridge is a purpose-built , modern , international hotel . |
| 3 | Villa Ornella — set in an attractive garden |
| 4 | Mowbray is set for an emotional return to Ayresome Park when Celtic provide the opposition for his testimonial match on Sunday , July 26 . |
| 5 | With such creative flair and technical expertise , the art of the Billboard Poster and the Advertising Hoarding look set for an innovative and fresh look in the ‘ 90's . |
| 6 | THE OVD Scottish Junior Cup is set for an outstanding quarter-final stage following yesterday 's draw which pitched Central League favourites Petershill and holders Auchinleck . |
| 7 | The controversial Mildmay fences posed no problems they could not solve and , eight months in advance , everything is set for an enthralling Boxing Day confrontation in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 8 | The stage was set for an exciting finale on a modified version of the men 's final . |
| 9 | The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out . |
| 10 | But they have to be set against an overall decline in psychology degrees , including those taken by Afro-American and Hispanic students . |
| 11 | I caught up with him at his villa just outside Salzburg , which overlooks a small vineyard , set against an imposing mountainous backdrop . |
| 12 | Costs are set against an annual Library estimate , currently totalling £500 , of which some £285 has been spent so far this year . |
| 13 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 14 | A low wattage bulb glowed half-heartedly beneath a grubby glass lampshade and on the wall to her right was a light switch , round and brown , and set against an embossed biscuit-coloured paper , fading and patchily stained with damp . |
| 15 | These usually consist of large , naturalistic floral garlands or medallions set against an open or sparsely decorated field . |
| 16 | Fronting the tiers of frivolously gilded boxes , just discernible in the gloom of the Teatro Poliziano , the stage appears to be brilliantly lit , set with an all-purpose lyric opera backdrop . |
| 17 | Britain 's national energy strategy must be set within an overall European framework , with the aim of reducing pollution , improving energy efficiency and boosting the use of renewables . |
| 18 | When set within an historical perspective , it comes as something of a shock to learn that primary education as we perceive it ( with children and teachers housed in buildings built or adapted to ‘ meet the needs of the children themselves , ) is a recent phenomenon . |
| 19 | The whole endeavour was set in an international context , the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad . |
| 20 | You 'll receive a warm welcome at England 's prettiest and most popular family-run vineyard of 20 acres , set in an ancient estate . |
| 21 | Moreover , though the small centre of Buxtehude is attractive enough , Ingolstadt is the only one with a heritage of historic buildings set in an ancient street pattern . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Samaraweera cites Leonard Woolf 's novel The Village in the Jungle to support his characterization of the average litigant as ignorant of court procedure , but Woolf 's novel was set in an impoverished , dying and atypical village in the dry zone . |
| 24 | When Richard 's top lip set in an obstinate bow and his lower lip protruded in a sullen pout he had the unmistakable look of his aunt Margaret . |
| 25 | This is a modern , recently established hotel , set in an historic listed building which formerly housed a famous local distillery . |
| 26 | The film included a suggestive ten-minute episode , set in an eighteenth-century brothel , in which a male customer chose a female prostitute , helped her undress in a bedroom and finally got into bed with her , and a frankly explicit ten-minute episode of a newly wed bride and groom set in a hotel bedroom . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The invisible setting — a technique by which the stones are set in an unbroken mosaic of colour seemingly independent of metal support — was introduced by Van Cleef in 1937 . |
| 29 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 30 | Last night 's mystery was set in an open prison so relaxed that you wondered if the female governor went round tucking up the inmates at night . |