Example sentences of "is set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 2 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 3 | Guerrillas is set in an imaginary Caribbean country , whose capital city is by the sea . |
| 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 play is set in a imaginary African Republic , Kambawe . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | AMA a magical realist adventure story is set in London , drawing successfully on African traditions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This play which was in Boston in 1911 is set in a farmyard . |
| 11 | Front Page Story ( 1953 ) is set in a newspaper office , where a harassed editor played by Jack Hawkins deals with homeless children , a scientist wanting to spill atomic secrets , a journalist 's crisis of conscience and a wife who plans to walk out on him . |
| 12 | Springs Hydro is set in acres of landscaped gardens in beautiful rural Leicestershire ( 1 ) . |
| 13 | The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be . |
| 14 | It is set in a medieval castle in a historic town in Eastern Europe . |
| 15 | I have never eaten brawn — no doubt I should do so — so can not comment on it except to say that it is made from the pig 's head which is simmered with herbs and spices ; the resulting meat is set in the naturally produced aspic . |
| 16 | Each night during a 6-month working season , 40,000–60,000 km ( about 30,000–45,000 miles ) of drift-net is set in the North Pacific Ocean - enough to encircle the planet and cross the Pacific for a second time . |
| 17 | Everything now is set in ice , mast-high , floating by , as green as emerald , as green as her eyes . |
| 18 | Because Forster 's tale about two clashing families — the stuffy Wilcoxes and the emancipated Schlegels — is set in Edwardian England the house had to be decorated in period style . |
| 19 | The play is set in an old Thames warehouse which has been converted into a fringe theatre ( the seats certainly look authentically uncomfortable ) . |
| 20 | And then there is the international novel , which is particularly easy to translate because it is set in a generalised Nowhere and has no idiosyncratic language to disturb its translators . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Taken from a one-act play by Prosper Merimee , it is set in 18th-century Peru and focuses on a company of travelling players performing in the tradition of the commedia dell'arte . |
| 23 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 24 | The action is set in the kind of country house , all wood panelling and flickering firelight , that normally provides the setting for a creaky stage thriller . |
| 25 | The Gothic style Manor House is set in the midst of 120 acres ( 50 hectares ) of gardens and parkland ; it was built in 1804 to replace a previous Jacobean residence , and is at the centre of the 3,300 acres ( 1,335 hectares ) Bradwell Grove Estate , where for many centuries farming and forestry have been practised in a way typical of life in the Cotswolds . |
| 26 | The Edelweiss is set in its own lush and shady garden with a large terrace where you can enjoy views of the Lauterbrunnen Valley ( famous for it waterfalls ) , the awesome Jungfrau and the wildlife reserve on the Breithorn . |
| 27 | The hotel is set in well tended gardens , has a swimming pool and sun terrace , a restaurant , bar , television and reading rooms . |
| 28 | The Gulma is set in its own garden with lawns and a sun terrace at the rear . |
| 29 | Just five minutes on foot from the town centre , this super hotel , as its name would suggest , is set in its own magnificent park . |
| 30 | Again , it is set in the most spectacular countryside and well worth taking your camera to . |