Example sentences of "[noun sg] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So how does the girl who began hitting on a Swingball set in her back garden , see this move ? |
| 3 | WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Buddy movie set in the world of basketball , starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There 's a film on now , ‘ a gritty piece set in a Welsh mining community ’ according to the Radio Times . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The processes of rethinking and reorganization set in motion by the scandals over unprotected children were slow and painful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 15 | A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties . |
| 16 | Her mouth set in a stubborn line he knew so well . |
| 17 | Her mouth set in a grim line , she went to the kitchen door . |
| 18 | Sarah 's mouth set in a grim line . |
| 19 | His closely shaven face was tense and his usually sensuous mouth set in a grim line . |
| 20 | Her mouth set in a stubborn line . |
| 21 | It stood there , hunched and spindly , the weight held threateningly in one tiny hand , its big , dark , staring eyes fixed murderously on him , its mouth set in a snarl of deadly intent . |
| 22 | Joseph 's mouth set in a thin line . |
| 23 | He stared at her , mouth set in a bitter line . |
| 24 | Roman , his mouth set in a straight line , strode across the grass , leaving Dana and Claudia to follow . |
| 25 | She lifted the receiver as Myra darted to the other phone and , her mouth set in a straight line , dialled the number of Roman 's office . |
| 26 | Folly 's mouth set in a grim line . |
| 27 | Nadine 's mouth set in a firm , determined line . |
| 28 | Cranston 's mouth set in a stubborn line . |
| 29 | He leaned forward as he spoke , his tanned forehead pleated into a concerned frown and his mouth set in a line of sober sincerity . |
| 30 | With Rune 's jaw hard and his mouth set in a straight line it was easy to imagine just how terrifying their enemies had found the invaders . |