Example sentences of "set in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in an orchard and meadowland adjacent to the beautiful Bridgwater — Taunton Canal , St Quintin has good facilities and is an excellent touring centre for Somerset , Devon and Dorset . |
| 2 | Villa Ornella — set in an attractive garden |
| 3 | Set in an exclusive residential area of Rome , 1¼ miles from the Spanish Steps , the Hotel Claridge is a purpose-built , modern , international hotel . |
| 4 | Guerrillas is set in an imaginary Caribbean country , whose capital city is by the sea . |
| 5 | By then , the game was set in an exciting crescendo , Palace interrupting the openings contrived down the right by Mike Newell and Pat Nevin with breaks aimed at Wright 's speed and control . |
| 6 | Today , the remarkably well-preserved ruins of the church , Abbot 's House and Infirmary are set in an attractive , wooded park — though surrounded by an incongruous mass of streets and factories . |
| 7 | Our music should be set in an outward discovery of difference and space . |
| 8 | Last night 's mystery was set in an open prison so relaxed that you wondered if the female governor went round tucking up the inmates at night . |
| 9 | The play is set in an old Thames warehouse which has been converted into a fringe theatre ( the seats certainly look authentically uncomfortable ) . |
| 10 | Similarly , in La neige etait sale ( The Stain on the Snow ) which is set in an occupied country , has as its hero Frank Friedmaier — a thug who kills for fun and arranges the rape of a young woman who loves him . |
| 11 | The church doorway is splendid , flanked by columns and elegantly arched , a neat balcony above it , set in an elaborate second tier , the whole under a triangular gable section . |
| 12 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 13 | When Richard 's top lip set in an obstinate bow and his lower lip protruded in a sullen pout he had the unmistakable look of his aunt Margaret . |
| 14 | 41 ( Right ) Jewellery used for portraiture : ( a ) Caesar appears on a gilded emblem set in an iron ring , worn by a member of the Caesarian faction in the civil wars following the Dictator 's murder in 44 BC ( above left ) . |
| 15 | Terry Gillam 's blackly comic futuristic fantasy , set in an Orwellian world of all pervasive bureaucratic repression and lumbering 1940s technology , where Jonathan Pryce 's timid , contented underachiever pursues the girl of his dreams and falls murderously foul of the system . |
| 16 | He observes an arable monoculture set in an unpopulated countryside . |
| 17 | You 'll receive a warm welcome at England 's prettiest and most popular family-run vineyard of 20 acres , set in an ancient estate . |
| 18 | Moreover , though the small centre of Buxtehude is attractive enough , Ingolstadt is the only one with a heritage of historic buildings set in an ancient street pattern . |
| 19 | Samaraweera cites Leonard Woolf 's novel The Village in the Jungle to support his characterization of the average litigant as ignorant of court procedure , but Woolf 's novel was set in an impoverished , dying and atypical village in the dry zone . |
| 20 | Why , he even once built me a tiny crystal set in an empty match box saying , ‘ Here , Kit . |
| 21 | All of this magical garden was set in an acre of tough , fibrous grass on which a boy with a curved knife squatted on his haunches while cropping the ‘ lawns ’ . |
| 22 | Easily Accessible : Downhayes is set in an area of small working farms with few public footpaths in the immediate area . |
| 23 | The house itself was built by a local architect in 1974 , and is set in an acre of garden , bordered on one side by the gently flowing River Arun , and on the other by green fields : The background is dominated by the castle . |
| 24 | Dunstaffnage House is set in an acre of pretty garden with wonderful views across the open land to the Cairngorms , yet only a few minutes drive from the centre of Grantown . |
| 25 | It 's set in an instrumental ambient world a few parallel light years away from The Orb , with titles like ‘ Xtai ’ , ‘ Ptolemy ’ , ‘ Heliosphan ’ and ‘ Hedphelyn ’ that demonstrate the art of Chill-out techno and loads of bits that sound like your phone ringing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This is a modern , recently established hotel , set in an historic listed building which formerly housed a famous local distillery . |
| 28 | ‘ Catherine ’ was set in an architectural representation of the Hermitage , complete with imitation window and door frames , cornices and mouldings , matching paint colours , and a twenty foot long photo-mural of the exterior of the Hermitage that greeted visitors at the entrance . |
| 29 | The invisible setting — a technique by which the stones are set in an unbroken mosaic of colour seemingly independent of metal support — was introduced by Van Cleef in 1937 . |
| 30 | The whole endeavour was set in an international context , the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad . |