Example sentences of "setting [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If you are uncertain of the type of frame you want to use , or even of the very important role it plays in setting off the finished picture , browsing through the photographs in this book should give you a good idea of the tremendous versatility of frames , and also show you how the correct frame will focus the eye on the design itself , as well as balance all its elements .
2 Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them .
3 Do not change the OBS setting during the holding procedure .
4 His interest in the British empire was stimulated by a schoolmaster 's setting for a Latin essay prize a subject involving imperial federation .
5 If you are going from a 2x1 rib to full needle setting for the main pattern , then finish with the lock at the left of the bed , lower the stitch size and knit two rows with the lock set to CX/CX .
6 Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens .
7 Within any such population it is possible to identify four subgroups : long-stay residents ; those who die shortly after admission , those who return home after a period of convalescence and those who move to another long-term care setting after a short stay .
8 They include setting up a new track authority and consumer committees to safeguard the interest of passengers .
9 The hippies used to say : ‘ Wow man , you know we love Lyndon Johnson ’ , and people like Roland Muldoon — who was setting up the Cast street theatre group — were in a much more combative mood .
10 She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line .
11 Farther than 12 nm away the reports were ‘ Nothing heard ’ on the low power settings ( both sets ) and ‘ Weak and unreadable ’ on the high power setting with the IC-A20 MkII .
12 The second point on which Tony Crosland gives a rare hostage to the future relates to streaming and setting within the comprehensive school .
13 I examined them one by one — drinks , thermometer , stethoscope , blood-pressure machine , plaster cut-down setting , emergency transfusion setting in a sealed tin , emergency tracheotomy setting in another , emergency hypodermic setting on the final sterile-towel-covered tray .
14 The second objection was the problem of agenda setting in a participatory democracy .
15 The main focus of their sponsorship is totally to re-equip the department 's studio with state-of-the-art electronic flash and tungsten lighting equipment ; in exchange , KJP have a distribution site on campus , serving the Lothians , and a showpiece setting in a real studio situation .
16 The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars .
17 ENGLISH RIB knitted using a non-selective , directional , tuck setting on a chunky machine .
18 I like the sun setting on a calm sea — ’ His breath hissed through his teeth .
19 Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ?
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