Example sentences of "[adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 2 | Calm down , Bina , it 'll be OK — magic , I 'll have shot through the lot — straight As , I 'll be all set for anything : research physicist , brain surgeon , professor of semiotic philology … |
| 3 | The scene was all set for a pitched battle . |
| 4 | With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening . |
| 5 | The man all cricket knows as Syd was all set for action … after a year long fight for fitness … and then on saturday in the gym fate struck again |
| 6 | The man all cricket knows as Syd was all set for action … after a year long fight for fitness … and then on saturday in the gym fate struck again |
| 7 | Mills all set for ‘ return ’ to Glens |
| 8 | I was on level four , I' [ d rescued hostages , destroyed the nuclear reactor , and was all set to finally put an end to the madman . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all set to music . |
| 10 | Hypnotic is the password that keys 11th Hour into an epic eight-minute atmospheric adventure , ushered on to the floor by tribal rhythms , annexed by haunting pianos and African paeans , all set on course to become another top bazooka with clubland . |
| 11 | FROM THE treasury of BBC moving pictures comes a further production of classic action , all set on English fields , all in colour except the first sequence ( the Oval Test of 1968 ) , all pleasant , positive viewing . |
| 12 | There is a swimming pool with a sun terrace , pool bar , free deckchairs and deckchairs all set in lovely gardens . |
| 13 | His gloriously coloured plumage is emblazoned with 169 diamonds , 44 sapphires , 31 emeralds , three round rubies and two pear-shaped rubies , all set in eighteen carat gold . |
| 14 | In fact , the tea 's all set in the dining-room as usual and has been for … let me see ’ — she put her head on one side — ‘ how many years ? ’ |
| 15 | The early days of apartheid get rewritten as one ( white ) boy 's mythical slugfest for justice , all set against a backdrop of Big Scenery , psycho-Nazi Afrikaners , good-natured English liberals and nobly suffering blacks . |
| 16 | Swimmers are well catered for with a heated main pool , a whirlpool bath and a shallow children 's pool all set within the grounds . |
| 17 | 1981 : 78 ) , there are the attributes held to be exemplified in the half-timbered , suburban , semi-detached , middle-class house : an ambivalent position in relation to town and country , an expression of individualism extended in the modern do-it-yourself tradition , a concern with compromise and a rejection of extremes , all set within statements about tradition and nationalism . |
| 18 | Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management . |
| 19 | Bob Stanley in Melody Maker also recognised a band entering a new phase after witnessing their 45-minute long set at London 's Kilburn National . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The cavalryman , who was called Lord John Rossendale , was staring at the sumptuous decorations in the supper room where the long tables were draped in white linen and thickly set with silver and fine china . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I scarcely think so , ’ she said carelessly , ‘ I am not much set on jewellery , you know … ’ |
| 23 | But he was in his thirties , and already much set in his ways , and perhaps reluctant to make too many changes too quickly . |
| 24 | Julius 's mouth suddenly set into a hard line that she remembered very well , and her nerves gave an involuntary quiver . |
| 25 | Here is one example of what the new crime amounted to : ‘ Suddenly set upon by two men , one of whom seized him by the throat and threw him upon the ground , whilst the other thrust a quantity of mud in his mouth ’ ( The Daily News , 15 December 1862 ) . |
| 26 | Dolly was obviously set on being sociable for the whole evening . |
| 27 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the recent history of the DUP , despite journalists ' frequent attempts to portray Paisley as a man sufficiently set on personal power to be willing to compromise to achieve it . |
| 28 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 29 | Such craftsmen were considered more than mere artisans , and their products , especially set in seal rings , were highly esteemed . |
| 30 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |