Example sentences of "[be] the setting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 2 | A second response has been the setting of separate targets for each field , over and above those for home students . |
| 3 | It has been the setting for the marriages of numerous MPs and the subsequent baptism of their offspring in its Welsh marble font . |
| 4 | For several years this has been the setting for the Alford Craft Market . |
| 5 | The chimney stack of a small steamer , the slanted gaffs of fishing boats returned from the morning catch , the furled booms of others , moored and idle , bisected his segment of sky ; framed by the blind like a holy picture fringed with handmade paper lace , it could have been the setting for a miraculous landfall of a saint 's body . |
| 6 | New Brighton has been the setting for seven British championship events , but next week 's spectacle will be the first with European involvement . |
| 7 | New Brighton has been the setting for seven British championship events but next week 's spectacle will be the first to feature European boats . |
| 8 | Such reports suggest , often in the choice of vocabulary as much as in overt statement , that classrooms and football grounds are the settings for scenes of anarchy and disorder . |
| 9 | The many continents of the planet Marinus are the settings for this six part adventure as the Doctor 's party find themselves on a quest to locate the missing keys to the Conscience of Marinus . |
| 10 | In a logical net , the parameter values are the settings of the bits in the cells of its RAM chips . |
| 11 | It 's the sort of shabby restaurant you can still find in France : radishes and butter and spiced olives for nibbles , enormous roses plonked on the table and football on the TV in a back room are the setting for the very best pommes frites and memorable dishes of brains a beurre blanc and kidneys in garlic . |
| 12 | ( e ) Self-help groups : The rehabilitation programme can be the setting off point for a self-help group , so that patients who have been through the exercise programme , which may well last anything from 4–12 weeks , can continue to meet and exercise together with friends they have made . |
| 13 | Their outputs are interpreted as a 6-bit signed binary number , which is to be the setting of the steering wheel . |
| 14 | The soirée seems to be the setting for mere social chit-chat and the group includes breezy social climbers , demure maidens and worried intellectuals but what binds them together , apart from their social exclusivity , is the fear that their class is under threat . |
| 15 | Marble Hill in Richmond , Surrey , is a new venue for Baileys SummerStage and will be the setting for two special events . |
| 16 | Europe will be the setting for many further British contributions and achievements in the years to come . |
| 17 | In parts of Melanesia such as the Solomon Islands , for example , relatively homogeneous tropical forest may be the setting for an extreme variety of cultural forms , such as spears or armbands , as one moves across an island archipelago . |
| 18 | It might be the setting for A Midsummer Night 's Dream , thought Sara ; sleepily stretching herself , and any minute now Titania and her train of fairies might glide across the grass and into the trees . |
| 19 | The Pavilion will also be the setting for a concert by the Scottish rock group Wolfstone . |
| 20 | THE impressive walls and towers of Framlingham Castle were the setting for a highly entertaining version of Shakespeare 's Henry V yesterday . |
| 21 | THE BEAUTIFUL grounds of Dalmeny House near South Queensferry were the setting for the annual BP barbecue . |
| 22 | As he later recorded in his ‘ Lines on an Autumnal Evening ’ , these were the settings in which for the first time ‘ young Poesy/Stared wildly-eager in her noontide dream ’ . |
| 23 | When E is at a minimum , the output is the settings of the other visible switches . |
| 24 | This is the setting of an election incontro ( encounter ) for Mario Segni , parliamentary candidate for the Christian Democrats , radical reformer , and son of a former president . |
| 25 | In fact what is proposed by Mr Ceravolo in his report to the Parliament is the setting of a timetable for the elimination of lead from petrol and it is likely that this will be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers in June and it is to be hoped that the Council will then call on the Commission to proceed to a new directive on the matter to replace the existing one which determines the 0.15 minimum level . |
| 26 | An integral part of delegation is the setting of targets for those given responsibility for tasks . |
| 27 | Her island trip that year was to Pa/1ros , perhaps the most successful that she ever made : -it is the setting of her story ‘ In a Different Light ’ . |
| 28 | What makes this disc worth having is the setting for chorus and orchestra of Schiller 's Nanie , composed in memory of a friend . |
| 29 | This is the setting for most of the island 's attractive resorts of white and green villas , set amongst landscaped gardens and scarlet hibiscus . |
| 30 | Edwy survived and retreated from the battle at Gloucester which is the setting for the play . |