Example sentences of "set [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You know the play 's set in the twenty-first century , ’ Josh explained . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 34 | EOF# is only true if PTR# is set beyond the last byte written to the file . |
| 35 | EOF# is only true if PTR# is set beyond the last byte written to in the file . |
| 36 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 37 | The model is attached to a node at the origins of the reference space , with the second attached to a point set on the first . |
| 38 | Built in the early 1960's , comprising a modern split-level maisonette with accommodation set on the first and second floors . |
| 39 | The report , which in previous years was called British Lifestyles , shows the trends set over the last ten years and predicts changes in the next decade . |
| 40 | ( The upper limit of normal for each measure was set at the 95th centile ) . |
| 41 | All that is required is simply to retard the ignition timing by 3 degrees ( are you sure that your ignition timing is spot on , anyway — try unleaded and if the engine does n't ‘ pink ’ , you 're OK , but have the ignition properly set at the next service ) . |
| 42 | After 13 weeks of inpatient care the health authority would charge a fixed fee , which could be set at the eightieth percentile of the fees charged by the private sector within a set area , or £500 per week . |
| 43 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |
| 44 | A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now . |
| 45 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 46 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 47 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |