Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whatever the motives , the Government 's twin aims of handing back the control of unions to the individual members , and ensuring that trade unions act within bounds set by a democratic state , are ones that should have been promoted by the left . |
| 2 | As will be discussed below , the treatment of detainees suspected of security offences is still open to serious questioning , but the operations of the penal system itself continue within the bounds set by the Statute of Rights . |
| 3 | We could see it as providing an insurance fund against loss caused by ( usually ) unintentional failure to keep within the bounds set by the principles of public law . |
| 4 | The weakest test of conformity with the no-arbitrage condition uses the bounds set by the transactions costs of arbitrage . |
| 5 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 6 | Then she turned and eased herself over the lip , clambered down the old wooden steps set into the clay wall , and ran across towards the jetty . |
| 7 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 8 | These form a larger group than fabliaux set in the country , largely in villages , although the latter group is still a substantial one . |
| 9 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 10 | The attractions include the Roman walls , the castle , the cathedral , the racecourse , the zoo and the famous ‘ Rows ’ ( shops set in a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century environment ) . |
| 11 | They had strengthened structurally weak areas around doors and windows with layers of fired bricks set into the mud walls . |
| 12 | Wallmounted lights ( including lighting bricks set into the wall ) are a good choice for steps , while post-mounted lights , bollard-type lights or low-level lanterns are good for paths . |
| 13 | Your program should not , of curse , subsequently try to use variables set before the clear statement . |
| 14 | However , the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars , while significant struggles and in the case of the latter conflict involving savage warfare in Manchuria anticipating the kind of warfare to be seen in Europe between 1914 and 1918 , did not constitute a confrontation between two superpowers set against a background of vitriolic suspicion and rivalry , as happened in 1950 . |
| 15 | The view from the Beech 99 explained everything about the area and its needs — vast numbers of small lakes set in an almost tundra-like expanse of scrub and woodland . |
| 16 | Blanche 's lips set into a pout of annoyance . |
| 17 | Jonadab 's lips set in a straight line and his brows drew together in a frown . |
| 18 | Her hair was screwed into a ballerina chignon and her wooden lips set in a smile of excessive sweetness . |
| 19 | His lips set in a snarl . |
| 20 | Whereas the standards and styles set by the peer group can set highly influential markers around acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for young people it is in individual friendships that young people find support and security , negotiate their emotional independence , exchange information , put beliefs and feelings into words and develop a new and different perspective of themselves . |
| 21 | The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves . |
| 22 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
| 23 | TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties . |
| 24 | She had her eyes set on a bigger catch than me . ’ |
| 25 | But Ireland 's new track queen Sonia O'Sullivan also has her eyes set on the prize , and she has the taste for mega-bucks after her 3,000m win in Brussels earned her four one kilogram gold bars worth about £33,000 . |
| 26 | Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ? |
| 27 | Leila , his girlfriend , has John Lennon 's other pair of glasses , but behind her pair are sparkling eyes set in a face that is always cheerful . |
| 28 | Neat black hair , with dark intense eyes set in a handsome sunburnt face . |
| 29 | Of Jewish descent , he is a big man in every sense , powerfully built , with deep dark eyes set in a craggy , lined face and an Albert Schweitzer moustache . |
| 30 | One of the giant owls of the region , about the size of an Eagle Owl ( p. 177 ) , but with longer tail , rounder head and no ear tufts , smaller yellow eyes set in a facial disc with concentric dark rings , and a black patch on the chin . |