Example sentences of "set at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Set at the north eastern edge of Lake Garda , Torbole is a pretty village full of both character and charm .
2 Set at the height of Victoria 's rule , the story revolves around three Oxford undergraduates who have nothing better to do than court young females , have parties and be awfully brassic .
3 SET AT THE mouth of the mighty River Nile , Cairo is a convenient departure point for safari tours to see the wildlife of the Eastern Sahara Lake District .
4 Beling ( 1978 ) describes an alternative implementation , in which a clock signal — set at the maximum stepping rate — is input to a phase sensitive detector , which also receives step command signals .
5 My equipment can be set at a frequency to emit sound waves that will obviate that effect .
6 Here is the archetypal mid-Wales upland village , set at a confluence of river valleys among tree-lined pastures and overlooked by forested hills .
7 The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows .
8 All those concerned need to believe that the targets are being set at a level which is achievable .
9 Partly because of Treasury pressure to limit the overall cost of the scheme and partly due to ageist assumptions concerning the needs of older people , the National Insurance pension was set at a level of bare subsistence rather than adequate maintenance .
10 Within the UK the threshold has been set at a level of £135,000 , above which any business supplying or acquiring goods will have to complete this form on a monthly basis .
11 The first part of this course is set at a level that closes the gap which students frequently encounter between Intermediate and Upper Intermediate .
12 But bail should be set at a level which effectively deters flight .
13 A pollution tax could theoretically be set at a level that would exactly match the external costs involved .
14 Shareholders will benefit because the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative has been set at a level which is 50 per cent higher than the recommended final cash dividend .
15 Thus , the AMA argues , the Fifth Amendment ‘ requires that prices must be set at a level that permits any enterprise , including a physician 's medical practice , to operate successfully , to maintain its financial integrity , to attract capital , and to compensate investors for the risk assumed ’ .
16 ( The July OPEC production ceiling , set at a total of just under 22,500,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , had been suspended since late August — see p. 37641 — and the Financial Times of Dec. 14 estimated that current overall OPEC output was 400,000 bpd above the ceiling , despite the loss of 4,300,000 bpd of Iraqi and Kuwaiti exports . )
17 One story is set at a computer show in Birmingham : a company representative visits the stand of a software firm , borrows its latest product , and runs off a copy in five minutes back at his own stand .
18 She went into the drawing-room , and flung back her veil , for the first time revealing a pair of remarkable green eyes , set at a slant like a cat 's or lynx 's .
19 The manat , which would circulate in parallel with the rouble , was set at a value of 1 manat=10 roubles .
20 Most annuals can be placed straight into the propogator , providing it is set at a temperature within the stated range , but some need to be covered with a polythene bag or sheet of glass .
21 The study room has a couple of armchairs , one heavy wooden chair set at a writing desk , a bookcase set against the east wall by the door , ornaments and furnishings , and a set of five masks ( as described below ) mounted along the north wall .
22 That , the increa there is an increase over the Wellent er Flood Defence , Wellent and Flood Defence Committee , two and a half per cent , but that as Severn Trent , is set at a zero increase .
23 Highly purified porcine or human short-acting insulin is added to a small volume of normal saline and infused using a pump set at a rate dependent on blood glucose monitoring .
24 At the centre of this system is a constant frequency clock set at a rate which is substantially above the starting/ stopping rate of the system .
25 The new Kuwaiti dinar was set at a rate of US$1.00=KD0.2857 , the rate applicable before the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion .
26 To illustrate this , here 's a II/V sequence down a cycle of 4ths , dealing with one string set at a time .
27 The stake had been set at a silver thruppence — a thruppence which ( Louisa remembered smiling now ) she had never seen , for the afternoon had ended in disaster .
28 This was originally set at a minimum of 50% and a maximum of 100% , although recent reclassifications have increased the minimum échelle to 80% .
29 Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game .
30 I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position .
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