Example sentences of "[noun] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you may know the Cardinal has already taken steps to set in train a thorough investigation into the moral implications of the Law Lords ' decision . |
| 2 | There are , two , not unsuccessful private-eye stories by British authors set in America such as Basil Copper 's Mike Faraday books about an authentic-seeming Los Angeles and , earlier , the books of the prolific James Hadley Chase with a whole variety of heroes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These form a larger group than fabliaux set in the country , largely in villages , although the latter group is still a substantial one . |
| 5 | Prestige developments , particularly Abingdon Marina , which is now well advanced into its 5th phase offers a comprehensive choice of quality waterside homes set in idyllic tranquil surroundings . |
| 6 | 8 country-style shops set in beautiful gardens . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | So how does the girl who began hitting on a Swingball set in her back garden , see this move ? |
| 9 | WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Buddy movie set in the world of basketball , starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There 's a film on now , ‘ a gritty piece set in a Welsh mining community ’ according to the Radio Times . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The elegant plans , in indian ink on vellum , which he presented to his clients , showed his proposed alterations to the landscape , often with serpentine lakes whose ends were concealed in woodland , with single trees and clumps set in parkland and with tree belts around the boundary , often with a ‘ ride round the Improvements ’ winding through them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The former actor and TV documentary director had made his feature film debut with A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) followed by Billy Liar ( 1963 ) , two modest pictures set in accurate British working-class surroundings , which introduced fresh , young players such as Alan Bates , Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie . |
| 18 | Jonadab 's lips set in a straight line and his brows drew together in a frown . |
| 19 | Her hair was screwed into a ballerina chignon and her wooden lips set in a smile of excessive sweetness . |
| 20 | His lips set in a snarl . |
| 21 | One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The processes of rethinking and reorganization set in motion by the scandals over unprotected children were slow and painful . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Through ethnographic research set in Albany , New York , a team of anthropologists from Queen 's University , Belfast , will investigate the range of beliefs and practices connected with Ireland that are current among Albany 's Irish-American population ; how Ireland and ‘ being Irish ’ in America are represented in everyday life , how they are distributed over the generations , and they may vary along socio-economic dimensions . |
| 26 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He has written novels and travel books set in Latin America , Africa , the Caribbean , India and Europe ; what he has to say about any country is worth reading . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | With a roar , it began to come their way , searching with its closed dead eyes set in the grotesque moving head . |