Example sentences of "set [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the seminal papers which give rise to paradigm shifts , and the creation of new journals to publish new subjects or combinations of subjects , are first published in the core journal set for the earlier research front , and the clusters which define the new research front may not include the journal which first published the paper which led to its inception . |
| 2 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 3 | But on second thoughts , that comparison also seemed obscenely trite when set against the greater contrasts in values affecting millions of fellow-inhabitants of this planet . |
| 4 | The outer door was set into the lower corner of the left-hand wall . |
| 5 | This viewpoint must be set within the wider political context . |
| 6 | The sooner I can get the air-conditioning on , the better , ’ he said , taking off his own jacket before going over to inspect the rather antiquated unit , set in the lower frame of one of the windows . |
| 7 | If the work of the SDPP is taken alongside that of another team on school management , the School Management Task Force ( DES 1990a ) , the benefit emerges of seeing how detailed proposals for management and review penetrate deep into the daily work of the school and how that detail can be set in the larger context of characteristics ( thirteen in number ) of effective schools ( DES 1990a : 5-6 ) , set against six management tasks which are regarded as having high priority following the 1988 Act . |
| 8 | She found him in the kitchen , a big L-shaped room , like the house , dominated by an Aga cooker at one end , and a round table set in the shorter alcove . |
| 9 | The simple search for a solution to deaf children 's educational needs had to be set in the broader context of the internal representation which BSL obviously offered to deaf people . |
| 10 | In a simple constant frequency system , however , the clock must be set at the lower of the two rates to ensure reliable starting and stopping . |
| 11 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 12 | Nearly all fourth year pupils in mathematics sets in the lower half of each school 's attainment range took the reference test . |