Example sentences of "is set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a passage about a picture by Judy Rifka : ‘ In Square Dress , a dancer , seen from above , is set off against an exuberant field of abstract color patches and architecturally evocative lines and circles . |
| 2 | Guerrillas is set in an imaginary Caribbean country , whose capital city is by the sea . |
| 3 | When he returns to the town , he is arrested , but is set free by Ferdinand , an African promoted from the bush whose patron he has once been . |
| 4 | It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person . |
| 5 | The second story is set in and around a country hotel , where the wife of a coarse doctor takes a more than kindly interest in a Klima wide-awake to the sights and sounds of this paradise . |
| 6 | The play is set in a imaginary African Republic , Kambawe . |
| 7 | Much of the middle , in fact , he wrote , will depend on where it is set up . |
| 8 | The report forecasts that the UK fast food market is set to continue growing through the 1990s at between 5% and 6% at constant prices , compared with 10% value growth in turnover during the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | DROP DEAD FRED is set to be this year 's A FISH CALLED WANDA ! |
| 10 | Our film is set in Dublin , Ireland , but it 's about the hopes and dreams , music brings to young kids everywhere , from Fingas to Philadelphia and Memphis to Minsk ’ . |
| 11 | AMA a magical realist adventure story is set in London , drawing successfully on African traditions . |
| 12 | ‘ What we need to do is set up a regular lunch date so everyone knows what 's happening . |
| 13 | This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward , the valuable compost . |
| 14 | The sociologist , as I shall illustrate , is the despised , hairy , intellectual subversive , who is set against the ‘ clean and ordered British bobby ’ . |
| 15 | The mortar is set before the frosts , and the roof will be on well before the snow . ’ |
| 16 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 17 | The tone is set by the continual use of the pose with head held high , back slightly arched , arms in closed 4th or a stretch fully upwards in 5th sur les pointes for Kitri or on demi-pointes for Basil . |
| 18 | A base price is set according to the area . |
| 19 | The size of barrier needed is set against the need to maintain volumes . |
| 20 | This is set in the hillside below the actual Dentelles — a line of rock blades which run like a dragon 's spine along the top of the hill above the wine village of Gigondas , near Carpentras . |
| 21 | The Working Dog of the Year Show is scheduled for the Sunday after the horse of the Year Show and is set to become the top spectator event in London for dog lovers . |
| 22 | If a drawing description file refers to ‘ COLOUR 1 ’ , the actual colour will be whatever colour 1 is set to . |
| 23 | Even longer delays can occur when the printer is set to work . |
| 24 | Changing Places , published in 1975 , is set in 1969 ; when Zapp reappears in a later novel , Small World , set ten years later , he has changed his attitudes , in accordance with major shifts in the Zeitgeist . |
| 25 | An array of instances , almost of specimens , is set before us ; and we are invited to make our own observations , inferring from them as much as they will bear . |
| 26 | Guy Bell of Beeson Gregory , a new name dealing in USM shares , says the company is under rated and is set for medium-term expansion . |
| 27 | It is set back from the road with a sweeping drive and an ornamental fish-pond in front , now stagnant . |
| 28 | Modern methods to make history more accessible : New management is set to boost British Historic Royal Palaces , as Neasa MacErlean reports |
| 29 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 30 | Play Me Something ( 15 ) is set on a small Hebridean island where a group of passengers await their plane . |