Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 From where I stood outside it I could see the Channel and the town of Boulogne set around the port .
2 The Colégio Church has a baroque façade , with four marble statues of saints of the Society of Jesus set into it .
3 He orchestrated a number of other shows , including in 1976 Fire Angel , a version of Shakespeare 's Merchant of Venice set in the New York underworld .
4 John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century .
5 Our prime minister is a failed bus conductor from Brixton set on creating a classless society .
6 Townhall destroyed in blaze set to be rebuilt
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