Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is not , in fact , one huge divide set between cardboard characters on the one hand and characters in depth on the other . |
| 2 | Dieppe , with its narrow streets and harbour set between chalk cliffs 150 feet ( 50m ) high , was the intended target of a commando and RM Division raid , as soon as sufficient craft were available for the simultaneous landing of a division . |
| 3 | Will Major and Hurd be able to neutralise the timebomb set by the social chapter amendment ? asks Chris McLaughlin |
| 4 | Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day . |
| 5 | What superlatives , comparatives and ordinals do is to pick some entity out of its extraction set by giving a property which identifies it relative to membership in that set . |
| 6 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 7 | Some computers provide several so-called processor modes , distinguished by the allocation of a separate accumulator set to each mode ; one mode ( the problem mode ) is further distinguished by having privileged instructions disabled , while the others are all supervisor modes entered under different interrupt conditions . |
| 8 | There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden . |
| 9 | Cati 's heart twisted , then withered inside her , like a paper taper set to the fire . |
| 10 | Leinster will be hard pushed to keep the score within the respectable margins of defeat set by their predecessors . |
| 11 | Set to kick off the programme at MAC on Saturday 29 September is the British premiere of MASALA an irreverent tragi-comedy set amongst Toronto 's middle-class Asian community starring Saeed Jaffrey . |
| 12 | So how does the girl who began hitting on a Swingball set in her back garden , see this move ? |
| 13 | WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Buddy movie set in the world of basketball , starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes . |
| 14 | This slow , luxuriant movie set in rural , wartime Wales has a lonely , emotionally battered schoolgirl named Elenya — Pascale Delafouge Jones — befriending an injured , shot down German pilot , Klaus Behrendt , hiding out in the woods . |
| 15 | 8 ( 5 ) WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Woody ( Cheers ) Harrelson and Wesley Snipes star in this buddy movie set in the world of basketball . |
| 16 | Highlights include a wood-panelled room from a Mayfair house and a Georgian shop front with its original glass as well as a carved pine chimney piece set with Wedgwood plaques which originated from Belvedere in Kent , rebuilt by James ‘ Athenian ’ Stuart for Lord Eardley . |
| 17 | There 's a film on now , ‘ a gritty piece set in a Welsh mining community ’ according to the Radio Times . |
| 18 | The 35–5- nanometre seventh harmonic they observed breaks the previous record of 38 nanometres for shortest wavelength coherent light set in 1977 by a team at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington using another harmonic-generation technique . |
| 19 | Arne Glimcher , owner of the important Pace Gallery , has just made his directorial debut with ‘ The Mambo Kings ’ , an $18 million adaptation of the novel by the Cuban-American Oscar Hijuelos an extravaganza set in a 1950s New York of Latin supper clubs and parties . |
| 20 | The new release conforms to the Open Software Foundation 's Application Environment Specification on the Series 700 for increased portability among Foundation systems ; Posix 1003.2 , which standardises the Posix shells and command set across Unix system to aid portability between Posix-compliant systems ; FDDI support ; Worldwide Portability Interface , providing a standardised interface for writing international programs as specified by X/Open Portability Guide 4 ; X 11.5 with up to 25% interactive performance increase over X11.4 ; OSF/Motif 1.2 with drag-and-drop mechanism for moving objects and exchanging data between applications ; and System V streams support . |
| 21 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 22 | Had the above account been a linguistic account , an explanation of the meaning of ‘ legitimate authority ’ , it would have followed that anyone who believes of a person that he has legitimate authority believes that that person satisfies the condition set by the justification thesis . |
| 23 | Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK . |
| 24 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
| 25 | One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet . |
| 26 | As a little compensation I begged Captain King to let us remove either to Bruny , or to Muscle Bay , which would make very little difference when once the wind set in fair , and it was accordingly settled that at daylight we should sail for Muscle Bay . ’ |
| 27 | The processes of rethinking and reorganization set in motion by the scandals over unprotected children were slow and painful . |
| 28 | 2-week tot set for new heart |
| 29 | He thrust it into the man 's hands and strode past him , making for the open doorway set in the centre of the long white portico that ran the length of the house . |
| 30 | over the figure set by the Government will mean at least a 9 per cent . |