Example sentences of "sets [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 2 | The Shetland Islands , the most northerly part of the United Kingdom at sixty degrees north , lie well south the true Arctic , but still far enough north that in midsummer the sun only sets for an hour or two . |
| 3 | InterCity 's dedicated Victoria-Gatwick Express push-pull service launched in 1984 made little difference to domestic services , employing ex-LMR Mark 2f coaches formed into trailer sets with a 1959-type 2-HAP driving trailer converted to a driving van at one end , and a Class 73 locomotive at the other . |
| 4 | The gas turbine division owns five additional gas turbine generator sets with a combined power output of 40 MW which are available for lease or resale . |
| 5 | Transfer the icing cut-outs to a sheet of foil or non-stick paper , and rest the ‘ birthday cake ’ cut-out on a piece of foil wrapped around a cake tin , so that it sets into a curved shape . |
| 6 | Melt the remaining 3 oz. of clarified butter and pour it , tepid , over the tongue paste , so that it sets in a sealing layer about one eighth of an inch thick . |
| 7 | In poster work refers to the number of Double Crown sets in a full size poster . |
| 8 | It sets in a coniferous haze |
| 9 | It first sets in a social and theological context the desire of the unknown nobleman to devote himself to God without the distractions that arise from involvement with secular responsibilities . |
| 10 | To start with , there are more energy levels : for a d 3 system , for instance , the ground free ion term is usually 4 F , but this splits in an octahedral field into three levels — 4 A 2g , 4 T 2g and 4 T 1g , just as the f orbitals split into a 2u , t 2u and t 1u sets in an octahedral field . |
| 11 | When the powder is mixed with cold water it first of all dissolves to a creamy white paste and then slowly sets to a hard solid . |
| 12 | Sun sets on a bad week for the BBC |
| 13 | Our opinions meaning nothing as the next government sets on a course of action which people directly have little to do with , although indirectly may adversely affect their lives . |