Example sentences of "set [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few ordinary citizens could afford to pay the 300 roubles which Kirov had set as a starting price for the most basic of suits . |
| 2 | We expected that if a task was set as a group task , then it should be done as a group . |
| 3 | A date has now been set for a Circuit Court Hearing in June of 1993 , almost two years since the date of his dismissal . |
| 4 | If London and the North both win , as expected , then the stage will be nicely set for a north-south shoot-out in their final game at Otley next Saturday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece . |
| 7 | Manchester trams are set for a return trip |
| 8 | The second general assembly found the stage set for a show discussion , a darkened hall with the five speakers and their chairman in a blaze of lights . |
| 9 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 10 | No date was set for a futher meeting . |
| 11 | Simply Red look set for a sellout concert at Gateshead this summer . |
| 12 | BOXING : Colin McMillan , the British and Commonwealth featherweight champion , is set for a world title chance if he beats American Steve Thibodeaux at Dagenham on March 25 . |
| 13 | PAUL Warhurst is set for a screen debut for Blackburn against Liverpool at Anfield tomorrow week . |
| 14 | The scene is set for a Courage League National Division Two showdown West on March 14 Newcastle victory moved them to within two points of their North-East rivals . |
| 15 | THE scene is set for a Courage League National Division Two showdown West on March 14 Newcastle victory moved them to within two points of their North-East rivals . |
| 16 | After the A453 and its attendant petrol station it is again worth paddling to lock 11 which is set between a container terminal and a sportsground lined with poplar trees which shed their downy white seed onto the canal in profusion at this time of year . |
| 17 | This is because there is no equivalent of group relief for capital losses , that is to say although group relievable items as defined in s403 TA 1988 can be set against a claimant company 's profits , including chargeable gains , there is no facility , in the inverse situation , for surrendering capital losses against profits of another group company . |
| 18 | The revaluation resulted in a £102.7m write-down , set against a revaluation reserve of £84m . |
| 19 | The apartments are set against a mountain backdrop and the views are superb ; it 's hard to believe that the discos , lively bars and general hustle of Benitses are only a five to ten minute walk away . |
| 20 | There was also a small washbasin set into a vanity unit with a cupboard underneath for storing spare toilet rolls and various cleaning materials . |
| 21 | They 're set into a set combination . |
| 22 | Pots will be attractive here and the pool acts as a real focal point , set within a brick circle at a slightly lower level than the patio . |
| 23 | The walls were brick lined and the floor covered with dull tiles set in a herringbone pattern that reminded her of a Roman villa she had once seen near the South Coast . |
| 24 | On the floor of the lobby , a place invariably filled with idle Tongan men of great girth , is a brass bas-relief of the Line , set in a marble sea . |
| 25 | They could wash their hands in one of the most glamorous marble basins in England , set in a marble niche with a scallop-shaped roof and with water gushing from the mouth of a mandarin mask . |
| 26 | Front Page Story ( 1953 ) is set in a newspaper office , where a harassed editor played by Jack Hawkins deals with homeless children , a scientist wanting to spill atomic secrets , a journalist 's crisis of conscience and a wife who plans to walk out on him . |
| 27 | The new books feature the same detective , Sarah Keane , and are set in a newspaper office ‘ not a million miles away from the Mirror ’ , according to Gordon . |
| 28 | The fresh colour scheme is continued with Pilkington 's Avignon ceramic tiles , set in a diamond pattern . |
| 29 | The film included a suggestive ten-minute episode , set in an eighteenth-century brothel , in which a male customer chose a female prostitute , helped her undress in a bedroom and finally got into bed with her , and a frankly explicit ten-minute episode of a newly wed bride and groom set in a hotel bedroom . |
| 30 | A Bible passage that I sometimes imagine might have been set in a school playground ( or assembly hall ) is found in Matthew 9:37–38 . |