Example sentences of "is set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We can not emphasize enough how important it is to set aside from your diet foods you suspect or know cause you problems .
2 an accent mark which is set separately from the main character and is then placed either over or under it .
3 If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) .
4 Working in this way , setting up a whole group which functions as a community , frequently leads drama teachers towards work which is set either in villages or small towns or on islands .
5 The Holiday Inn is set right on the white sandy beach of Batu Ferringhi , about 20 minutes drive from Georgetown .
6 This well run and friendly hotel is set right in the centre of the resort .
7 The manor is set right in the middle of Horncastle and has a large and colourful garden , much admired by passers-by who can not help but pause at the usually open corner gate in the garden wall .
8 Comprising two lakes , each of about three acres and generally from 12 to 18 feet deep , the fishery is set attractively on the edge of the Breckland forests and adjacent to the River Lark .
9 A fixed price for the land is set marginally above market value .
10 This is a recess in the hall which is set apart for tea and music and is characterized by a certain daintiness of treatment which bears a feminine relation to the masculine ruggedness of the hall … at the opposite end is the ‘ refectory' ’ … .
11 One road is set apart for the testing of the heating apparatus , etc. , on vehicles .
12 Like Baudelaire in Courbet 's painting of the artist 's studio , Minton is set apart from the central group both compositionally and by his introspection .
13 It is Slothrop who gives one kind of impetus to the novel in his desire to explain the correlation between his erections and the falling of the V-2 rockets on London ( the novel is set mainly in the last months of the Second World War ) .
14 One track in each cylinder is set aside as an embedded overflow area .
15 Furthermore , the whole list of injuries is set aside as a sort of sub-section , marked by three asterisks at the top and three at the bottom , so that the change of topic or scene is explicitly signalled to the reader .
16 A complete and comprehensive chapter is set aside on sample preparations .
17 ‘ Though he is famous for the extension of his territories and conquests in which he is constantly engaged , he has also started many public works for the beauty and convenience of the realm ; some of these he has completed , and a great part of his wealth is set aside for pious honouring of his ancestors .
18 At Ropley , village tree warden , Lyn Fomison is planning an organised walk around the churchyard , where an area is set aside for cowslips .
19 Any part with life left in it or potential for reconditioning is set aside for cleaning and re-sale .
20 When a wild pig is caught , the meat of the head is set aside for small children , for the vital principle is associated with it .
21 The library opens at 8.15 am and from then until 9 pm and from 3.45 pm to 4.30 pm , time is set aside for computer games as long as the microcomputers are not required for more serious work .
22 Lawrence said : ‘ Apart from next week , which is set aside for internationals , we face a series of mid-week games .
23 The status of the order of any court acting within its competence is one of full validity until , if ever , it is set aside by any other court acting within its competence .
24 It is set annually by the Government and can not rise by more than the rate of inflation .
25 The people of Whitby may be familiar with some of the landmarks in his historical romance The Red which is set there in the 1600s .
26 Much of what follows is set therefore in the form of questions which need to be considered by all of us .
27 The hotel was converted from a farm eight years ago and is set close to several Dales walks .
28 ( b ) Formation of regulated consumer credit agreement The consumer credit agreement must contain certain information which is set forth in a prescribed manner laid down by the Consumer Credit ( Agreements ) Regulation 1983 ( SI 1983 No 1553 ) .
29 Reviewing Pincher Martin , Amis once mildly reproached Golding for failing to ‘ turn his lifts of originality , of intransigence , and above all of passion to the world where we have to live ’ , since the novel is set remotely on an island in the Atlantic .
30 Your employer 's contributions to the scheme represent the money he is setting aside for your pension and other benefits .
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