Example sentences of "a [noun] set on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Violent incidents erupted , barricades were erected and cars burned , over 100 people including 23 police were taken to hospital with injuries or breathing difficulties due to tear gas , and three dead bodies were recovered from a building set on fire by a Molotov cocktail . |
| 2 | The model is attached to a node at the origins of the reference space , with the second attached to a point set on the first . |
| 3 | A Certain Sacrifice , made in 1979 , features the shy , retiring lady we later came to know as Madonna in a drama set on New York 's meanest streets . |
| 4 | The culmination comes on the night of the full moon when the sacred tooth of Buddha is carried through the streets of Kandy in a shrine set on top of a gigantic tusker. & illus : |
| 5 | It was a Meccano set on wheels . |
| 6 | A blackboard set on an easel at the rear of his boat proclaimed , Fishing Trips , Shark Fishing a Speciality . |
| 7 | The immediate and natural recourse of a woman set on a highly militant search after holiness , an escape from marriage and its social duties and a private life , would have been to enter a convent . |
| 8 | In Chapter 6 , we saw how to introduce a sequence set on a beach , beginning with establishing shots after which we grew gradually closer to the characters and their reactions to each other . |
| 9 | A church set on the rocky bluff by the Celtic sect of the Culdees ( ‘ Companions of God ’ ) later submitted to Roman usage and to the transformation of its survivors into Austin canons . |
| 10 | Set into the floor near the entrance is a brass strip running the width of the building to a sundial set on the left wall . |
| 11 | The Zborowskis with Jeanne and her mother took rooms in Le Pavilion des Trois Soeurs , a villa set on a hill at the back of the village , two miles from the sea . |
| 12 | The door opened and he stood there , staring at her , a squat little old man in shirt-sleeves and braces , a cap set on his head . |
| 13 | Ma Bell can hardly be described as a raider set on rape and pillage . |
| 14 | She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom . |