Sentence examples for setting the ceiling from inspiring English sources

Pinter's play is every bit the blasted landscape of Beckett's Godot despite its literal setting (the ceiling is topped by shadows of trees and open to the sky, an evocative touch that gives McKellen a funny bit of business early on).

The disco was destroyed on Saturday when a pyrotechnic stunt by a barman went wrong and set the ceiling on fire.

Growers and big champagne houses have set the ceiling on grapes which can be used for champagne this year at 9.7 tonnes a hectare for small producers, and 8 tonnes a hectare for vineyards owned by the big champagne houses.

He might as well set the ceiling of the central dining room as high as the Himalayas, hang a row of gargantuan chandeliers from it, and, ignoring the constraints of stiletto heels and the possible tipsiness of their wearers, make diners descend into this gaudy banquet hall — and the maze of moody chambers around it — via a vertiginous staircase.

Geron and particularly Celera may set the ceiling in an important new area of biotech.

The government set the ceiling for emissions from gas-fired power stations until 2045 at 450 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour (450gCO2/kWh).

Two of the counties have set the ceiling in conjunction with inpatient expenses.

For two of the subscales, greater than 60% of the dyads scored at the ceiling (setting the dose 62.5% and maintaining the pen 66.9%).

Understanding such associations can enhance our ability to make structural diabetes education intervention more effective and cost-effective by setting out the ceiling of sessions attended.

The Moscow Treaty set the current ceiling of 2,200 deployed warheads).

My bill will set the absolute ceiling for any member of Congress' wage to be $150,800.