Example sentences of "[noun] is set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The manor is set right in the middle of Horncastle and has a large and colourful garden , much admired by passers-by who can not help but pause at the usually open corner gate in the garden wall . |
2 | The Holiday Inn is set right on the white sandy beach of Batu Ferringhi , about 20 minutes drive from Georgetown . |
3 | Comprising two lakes , each of about three acres and generally from 12 to 18 feet deep , the fishery is set attractively on the edge of the Breckland forests and adjacent to the River Lark . |
4 | It is Slothrop who gives one kind of impetus to the novel in his desire to explain the correlation between his erections and the falling of the V-2 rockets on London ( the novel is set mainly in the last months of the Second World War ) . |
5 | Reviewing Pincher Martin , Amis once mildly reproached Golding for failing to ‘ turn his lifts of originality , of intransigence , and above all of passion to the world where we have to live ’ , since the novel is set remotely on an island in the Atlantic . |
6 | One track in each cylinder is set aside as an embedded overflow area . |
7 | One road is set apart for the testing of the heating apparatus , etc. , on vehicles . |
8 | Like Baudelaire in Courbet 's painting of the artist 's studio , Minton is set apart from the central group both compositionally and by his introspection . |
9 | This well run and friendly hotel is set right in the centre of the resort . |
10 | Furthermore , the whole list of injuries is set aside as a sort of sub-section , marked by three asterisks at the top and three at the bottom , so that the change of topic or scene is explicitly signalled to the reader . |