Example sentences of "[noun sg] set in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There 's a film on now , ‘ a gritty piece set in a Welsh mining community ’ according to the Radio Times .
2 Roman , his mouth set in a straight line , strode across the grass , leaving Dana and Claudia to follow .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Her face was flushed , but her mouth set in a firm line .
6 Her mouth set in a grim line , she went to the kitchen door .
7 Sarah 's mouth set in a grim line .
8 His closely shaven face was tense and his usually sensuous mouth set in a grim line .
9 Folly 's mouth set in a grim line .
10 She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line .
11 Joseph 's mouth set in a thin line .
12 Her mouth set in a stubborn line he knew so well .
13 Her mouth set in a stubborn line .
14 Cranston 's mouth set in a stubborn line .
15 He stared at her , mouth set in a bitter line .
16 Kate stared back at him , her mouth set in a bitter line .
17 For a moment she hesitated , then , her mouth set in a determined line Elise would have recognised with misgiving , set about dampening her cotton nightshirt and then her hair and face to simulate perspiration .
18 They are comic crime and its cousin , farce crime ; romantic suspense ; historical crime and its near relation , crime set in the immediate past ; and finally , the crime short story .
19 The lovely Llyn Brenig close to Cerrigydrudion , is a new reservoir set in a timeless landscape , where facilities exist for fishing , walking on the moors and bird watching .
20 The most dramatic direct action was taken at Luxulyan , a village set in a beautiful farming area with a local population mix of traditional farmers , well-heeled professionals and not so well-heeled smallholders .
21 But The Cutting Edge ( Cert P.G. ; General ) , a sort of Dirty Dancing on ice set in the competitive world of international skating , left me cold .
22 Leo McKern , Sara Kestelman and Ian Holm star in the BBC Screen Two presentation , The Last Romantics , on Sunday , a powerful story of love and betrayal set in the tranquil world of Cambridge University .
23 One evening after the kind of soft autumnal day that is an echo of the summer gone , when the sun sets in the western sky to cast great pinks ant reds across its distant clouds , Creggan was peaceful at his stance , dreaming of his own homesite .
24 It sounded like an interesting job — the play was a futuristic drama set in the twenty-first century , and the director said she 'd have a chance to really let her imagination run riot on the styles .
25 The main focus of their sponsorship is totally to re-equip the department 's studio with state-of-the-art electronic flash and tungsten lighting equipment ; in exchange , KJP have a distribution site on campus , serving the Lothians , and a showpiece setting in a real studio situation .
26 Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode .
27 Christian Slater achieved teen-star status with his role in ‘ Heathers ’ , a stylish and witty black comedy set in a high school where suicide appeared to be the latest fad .
28 It looked like a mock-up set in a middle-class soap opera , shining with domestic trivia , very clean .
29 The second objection was the problem of agenda setting in a participatory democracy .
30 These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors .
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