Example sentences of "set [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all started to set alight around the 10th and 11th . |
| 2 | The gift of genius Find a brilliant inventor to set loose in the laboratory and your problems are solved ; the new products will start to roll off the line immediately . |
| 3 | I would look for strategically positioned places , such as a corner or perhaps set high off the street . |
| 4 | There were no windows in the walls , the only light being provided by the banks of fluorescents set high in the ceiling . |
| 5 | A dozen cars have been stolen and set ablaze in the past six weeks — the last incident nearly led to hundreds of acres of trees being destroyed . |
| 6 | Referring to Section 6.2 it is clear that the required transformation can be achieved if we set equal to the value of at y . |
| 7 | Desktop publishing is unlike any other kind of software ever set loose on the market . |
| 8 | A funeral barge passed upriver towards Abydos , its sails set full to the north wind . |
| 9 | When Labour founded the National Health Service we lifted a great burden from the shoulders of ordinary families who were set free from the financial perils of ill health . |
| 10 | Beatriz Villamizar , one of the journalists , was reported to have been set free by the cartel in the capital Bogotá on Feb. 5 . |
| 11 | It was from this hippodrome that the four horses now on the façade of S. Mark 's Cathedral in Venice were originally taken ; they were set high above the track in Istanbul . |
| 12 | Whashton Springs Farm is set high in the hills , with superb views of the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 13 | Her only companion was the bright light that was set high in the wall and was shielded behind a thick glass cover with bars . |
| 14 | Thirty official buildings , 17 post offices and six buses were set ablaze in the period . |
| 15 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 16 | Staff at two industrial units on Teesside were evacuated when tyres were set alight at the rear of their premises . |
| 17 | During the festivities a hastily built bonfire was set alight in the middle of the market place , and an equally hastily assembled replica of the Japanese Emperor was burnt to a cinder on top of it . |
| 18 | A HINDU temple became the latest target for religious violence yesterday when it was set alight in the early hours . |
| 19 | The world was not set alight by the sound of ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ . |
| 20 | The building had been set alight by the killer . |
| 21 | Look at Figure 3 again ; the transfer price could be one that is set equal to the market price . |
| 22 | This deposit is known as initial margin and is set equal to the maximum daily loss that is likely to arise on the contract . |
| 23 | On the day I came up here , there were no workmen and the deserted new village was occupied only by horses , wandering at liberty between the half-finished buildings , the machinery and the piles of materials — hardly the setting for which they had been intended when set loose for the summer to forage for themselves . |
| 24 | Hijacked British lambs set loose in the streets of Bellac near Limoges . |
| 25 | It was a small timber building against the back edge of the pavement on land belonging to the Crystal Palace authorities and was set level with the scissors crossover now installed at the terminus . |
| 26 | Most of them were married , with children : they seemed to be set fair on the roads they would be travelling now for the rest of their lives . |
| 27 | But she fell in love with a gown set low over the bosom , and unadorned , but for a ribbon or two , in a soft peach that set off her copper tresses . |
| 28 | An insipid winter light dribbled in a thin gruel from a small pane of glass set low in the wall just above the camp bed on which he sprawled . |
| 29 | In the Hadrianic period the tiers of locks disappeared , and hair was simply drawn into a plaited bun set high on the crown of the head . |
| 30 | I knew something about Catalonia but nothing about Andorra , except that it was a tiny independent principality , one of the world 's smallest countries , set high in the eastern Pyrenees . |