Example sentences of "is [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kings Quest series is basically set in the mythical kingdom of Daventry , and revolves around the adventures of King Graham , his family and subjects . |
| 2 | ‘ What a pity your father is so set against accepting what he might consider to be charity from Tamar . |
| 3 | THE stage is finally set for what promises to be an unforgettable performance of one of Shakespeare 's finest plays . |
| 4 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 5 | The cost or price of borrowing or lending is thus set in the capital market . |
| 6 | The production , created by Nuria Espert , is not set at the conventional house on the hill , but in a tenement block in Nagasaki , in the post-war period . |
| 7 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 8 | As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said , the Union is not set in concrete ; it has changed over time , but , broadly speaking , we favour the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 9 | This is normally set at the purchase price or the upper limit of the price if this can not be determined at completion . |
| 10 | the results are impressive as the steam seals the meat and stops the protein oozing out as it is already setting in the joint . |
| 11 | The disaster is already set to be the world 's worst for ground casualties inflicted by a crashing aircraft . |
| 12 | You will notice in the dialog box that appears that the Type is already set to Date and that the Date Unit box is not greyed out . |
| 13 | More conclusive evidence comes from experiments in which the nucleus is removed from a fertilized egg , and is replaced by the nucleus of a cell which is already set on the road to becoming , for example , a gut cell or a skin cell . |
| 14 | The Hotel Metropole is prettily set on the water 's edge of Lake Como and its dining-room and terrace are specifically designed to take full advantage of this position , and give enchanting views across the lake . |
| 15 | Situated on the lakeside , this extremely popular hotel is prettily set against a backdrop of the spectacular green mountainside , and overlooks Riva 's main square , harbour and steamer landing stage . |
| 16 | As C. D. Burns remarked in 1924 : " We have … developed in England a compromise by means of which the educational system is in great part a State system and the standard of education is largely set by the universities free from state control . " |
| 17 | The statute of Carlisle is best set in this context . |
| 18 | Landis & Gyr 's new system in the new Forte Hotel in Exeter , Devon , for example , is usually set for guest and function rooms to be controlled at 20°C between 6am and 10am and from 4pm to midnight . |
| 19 | Community liaison committees tend to steer clear of contentious issues , and the agenda is usually set by the police . |
| 20 | However powerful or disruptive other actors become , the theoretical framework is still set by what states decide about guidelines or , in a systems perspective , what states are pressured into deciding by the demands of the system . |
| 21 | Having photographed these averagely attractive , effectively anonymous members nestled amongst feathers , emerging from a bunch of Iris buds , tucked up with a wad of £10 notes , or wrapped up in black fishnet material , the stage is ostensibly set for the viewer to compare these peculiar juxtapositions with those more commonly seen in the media where the female body is used instead . |
| 22 | Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese . |
| 23 | Chelmsford , where sitting MP Simon Burns has at least 13,000 too many voters , is also set for a boundary shake-up but creation of a new constituency seems unlikely . |
| 24 | The next most significant bit ( bit 1 ) is also set at this stage and these two bits of the accumulator are then written to the PIA lines used as the direction and clock start/stop signals . |
| 25 | This is automatically set to " N " for No . |
| 26 | The property is perfectly set for easy access to the capital city of Hamilton . |
| 27 | Situated right beside the lake , this grand and spacious hotel is just 10 minutes from the town centre , and is idyllically set in well established gardens . |
| 28 | Sprat says that he ‘ had the true imagination of the whole extent of this enterprise , as it is now set on foot ’ . |
| 29 | IBM is now set on breaking into smaller sections to become more competitive . |
| 30 | The Company is intent on maximising its potential and feels it is now set to further sales from 1991 which with revenue from other sources , point to a good year for the Company as a whole . |