Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 2 | Hill Street takes a little longer , but Aspen is conspicuous ; a long white villa set just below the crest of a low , wooded ridge , surrounded by white walls with ornamental black railings and little ball-head shrubs standing in wooden tubs . |
| 3 | There was also one further desk at the front , set just below the Inspector , where ‘ witnesses , gave evidence either for or against the proposal . |
| 4 | Its softly rounded and gently coloured contours , dotted with lush trees and russet houses , set comfortably into the landscape like plump and cosy chickens , were in strong contrast to coastal Northumberland which so often looked scoured and rough . |
| 5 | Melanie pictured the safe , made of very black metal , set squarely at the end of the bed where he could see it all the time , in the strange bedroom where he slept with Aunt Margaret in a bed that must sag deeply on his side , since he was so heavy and she was no weight at all . |
| 6 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 7 | There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 . |
| 8 | Equally , however , the farmer is entitled to demand that the countryside be viewed neither as a more extensive version of an urban recreation ground , nor as an arcadian idyll set aside for the pursuit of an indulgent atavism . |
| 9 | There was a breakfast room set aside for the train party where a piece of the mystery would unravel each morning . |
| 10 | Even before the build-up to the Hinkley C Inquiry , the sum set aside by the Board each year in its special ‘ future provisions ’ fund had risen sharply from £133 million in 1982 to £604 million in 1986 . |
| 11 | This is a modern , family hotel , set close to the seafront and with a private beach . |
| 12 | The party set forth on the road for Verdun . |
| 13 | But she achieved whatever she did against a massive public distaste for modern art , a fact well documented by Arnold and set clearly in the context of international and national attitudes . |
| 14 | With the sun shimmering on the glass of the palm house and the frost turning every shadow pale blue , the whole place looked like a gem , set perfectly upon the hillside . |
| 15 | Ideally , gates should be hung on study posts , set well into the ground . |
| 16 | Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were characterised as an ‘ extension of the conditions which the Soviet Union set earlier on the normalisation of conditions in the basin of the Indian Ocean , on transforming it into a zone of peace ’ . |
| 17 | Leave it set hard against the left . |
| 18 | Lexicographers change these values in the course of their work but the system will not allow them to set the status field to a value set initially by the system . |
| 19 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
| 20 | Jesus , the one set apart by the Spirit as the Son of God , dares to call God by this name . |
| 21 | An examination in Professional Practice ( RIBA Part 3 ) , set jointly through the Association of Scottish Schools of Architecture , is taken at the completion of the second period of practical training , and successful candidates are eligible to register with the Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom , and become full members of the RIBA and/or the RIAS . |
| 22 | He watched intently as the tiny shutters of tree-bark opened wider and wider , and when they were fully open they revealed a small squarish window set neatly in the curve of the big branch . |
| 23 | Every generation is apt to see Christ in its own image and produce its own ‘ plastic Christ ’ , a picture of Jesus pressed through the sieve of its own assumptions and set solidly in the mould of its own values . |