Example sentences of "of [noun] set [prep] [art] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 It was the course of action set by the Duke of Windsor when he quit the throne to marry Wallis Simpson .
5 It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel .
6 The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium
10 TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties .
11 She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor .
12 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 .
13 Supreme of chicken set on a casserole of devilled pimiento
14 Menu Clear beef and celery soup Supreme of chicken set on a casserole of devilled pimiento Crème brulée with exotic fruit
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Negotiations between the government and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) continued during late 1989 and early 1990 over the terms of future structural adjustment and standby facilities , but progress towards an agreement was impeded by the breaching of targets set under the IMF 's monitoring programme .
18 Another example of a conflict between official and unofficial group norms can be drawn from a situation where a group itself decides to operate a certain level of output over a given time , regardless of targets set by the management in their search for increased efficiency and productivity .
19 The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time .
20 Each NVQ [ SVQs in Scotland ] is a qualification about work , based on standards of competence set by the industry through its lead body .
21 From a purist point of view if the terms of debate set by the study of an inner city problematic are illegitimate then perhaps they should not be addressed at all .
22 There are three pairs of pads set into the surface of the tube ; one pair set on the top control the forward and backward motion , the second pair mounted on the side at the top control the up and down motion .
23 In The Animal Estate , Harriet Ritvo notes that pigs ‘ had trouble meeting even the minimal standard of obedience set by sheep and cattle , let alone the high standards of co-operation set by the dog and the horse .
24 The tenor Jose Carreras is to open a new outdoor festival of opera set in a castle grounds .
25 Its most famous son is Rossini who founded the town 's Institute of Music set alongside the renaissance palace , twisting narrow streets and fortress of the historic town centre .
26 This had small panes of glass set in a large cast-iron frame .
27 Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof .
28 When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof .
29 He observes a set of violations set in a microcosm and the photographs resonate with an irony reminiscent of the manner in which the behaviour of Lilliputians was chronicled by Jonathan Swift .
30 A word or combination of letters set as a single unit .
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