Example sentences of "of [noun] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the exception of Whitburn New the standard of effluent set by the Forth River Purification Board is the Royal Commission Standard ie BOD 20 mg/l which is dependent on at least 8 times dilution in the receiving waters to achieve a river water quality adequate to support fish life . |
| 2 | Although fish are not a usual ‘ pest ’ , the team of servicemen set to work immediately and , wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus , removed the decomposing fish and freezers from the premises . |
| 3 | Historically , the standard of diligence set by the courts has been comically low , as can be seen from the cases concerning failure to supervise fellow directors and managers who turn out to have been defrauding the company . |
| 4 | They usually had a thick , armoured skin , as well as possessing advanced features such as predentary bone , and sometimes a complex set of teeth set in a horny mouth . |
| 5 | Some showed neatly dressed Annamese families smiling from the doorways of houses set in small gardens beside groves of rubber trees . |
| 6 | It was the course of action set by the Duke of Windsor when he quit the throne to marry Wallis Simpson . |
| 7 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 8 | The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves . |
| 9 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
| 10 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 11 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 12 | Shepherd , more than any other contributor to this section , draws attention to the extent to which current efforts in the geographic information management field are constrained by the highly fragmented nature of both data suppliers and users both in sectoral and spatial terms , the great diversity of data sets in varying formats and the difficulties presented by institutional factors such as copyright provision , data ownership and the control of access to data . |
| 13 | This research project develops efficient computational fitting methods for a wide range of compound Poisson distributions for count data in geography , and in collaboration with geographers , assembles and analyses a representative collection of data sets in geography for which compound Poisson distributions are appropriate . |
| 14 | Dulcie Howes had created Fête galante , a comedy of manners set to Prokofiev 's Classical Symphony ; John 's playing of the ‘ suave and tenebrous major-domo ’ in this was praised by Denis Hatfield as a tiny humorous masterpiece . |
| 15 | TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties . |
| 16 | Leinster will be hard pushed to keep the score within the respectable margins of defeat set by their predecessors . |
| 17 | From where I stood outside it I could see the Channel and the town of Boulogne set around the port . |
| 18 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 19 | Although it was hardly disputable that a West German contribution to NATO would be invaluable , especially as the other European members did not wish to , or could not , meet the new levels of requirement set by the United States , the American demand caused consternation and an agonising evaluation of its consequences in the capitals of Europe , and nowhere more so than in Paris . |
| 20 | Supreme of chicken set on a casserole of devilled pimiento |
| 21 | Menu Clear beef and celery soup Supreme of chicken set on a casserole of devilled pimiento Crème brulée with exotic fruit |
| 22 | A line of 60 characters printed on a typewriter looks OK but a 6″ line of type set at 10pt is virtually unreadable , simply because the eye gets bored and stops short of the end . |
| 23 | Another door , Harry had said , down by the river 's edge : and in fact , when I looked I could see it , a once-painted slab of wood set in brickwork , its bottom edge barely six inches above the water . |
| 24 | The quality of texts set by Arcadelt range from the uninspired , to such passionate outpourings as Lorenzino De'Medici 's and Petrach 's . |
| 25 | Such churches were , therefore , like the basilica , rectangular in plan , twice as long as wide and had two or four rows of columns set along the long axis , providing three or five aisles . |
| 26 | A golden arc of sand set against Venice 's waterways |
| 27 | He moved into the farthest room , which had a tiny square of window set in its far wall and overlooking the rear driveway . |
| 28 | The captain was becoming worried by the amount of ice setting into the bay and was anxious not to be trapped . |
| 29 | There were many different sorts of trials set for the field-worker ( something noted in their field-work experience by Douglas 1972 and van Maanen 1982 ) , and the apologies other members of the section later gave her because of this policeman 's conduct is proof that these other trials , too , were successfully passed . |
| 30 | The spate of films set during the Vietnam War which reached the screen during the late 1980s highlighted the reluctance with which Hollywood approached the subject for many years . |