Example sentences of "[noun sg] set in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When deflation set in the previous gains were wiped out and more . |
| 7 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 8 | 20 ( — ) GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS : The superb screen version of David Mamet 's acclaimed play set in the high-pressure world of real-estate salesmen . |
| 9 | Xorandor is a tale set in the near future of two twelve-year-old fraternal twins called Jip and Zab who find a talking stone at an old carn in their native Cornwall . |
| 10 | The Contingency Reserve has always existed as a cushion to meet unexpected demands for spending without breaking the overall planning target for public spending set in the White Papers . |
| 11 | Imagining his Sara ‘ all oppressed with gloom ’ , Coleridge 's spontaneous reply was a poem set in the descriptive frame of an evening visit to Shurton Bars , the coastal area lying beyond a rich tract of open fields to the north of Shurton Court . |
| 12 | They slipped like shadows through the great doorway of the Lady 's Tower , and along a dark stone passage to a low oak door set in the inner wall . |
| 13 | There are barely 500 wireless sets in the whole country . |
| 14 | Behind the town lie the Pwllycrochan Woods and the famous Welsh Mountain Zoo set in the beautiful Flagstaff Gardens , home of the Zoological Society of Wales . |
| 15 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 16 | There was a small wicket set in the great west door . |
| 17 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
| 18 | ‘ What 's that ? ’ asked Fairham , pointing at a rusted grille set in the concrete close by the wall of the hospital wing . |
| 19 | This is a US pot-boiler set in the Old West of Oregon , where Chinese girl Lalu , played by the luminous Rosalind Chao , has been sold to a brother keeper but feistily refuses to play ball . |
| 20 | Whatever happens , the government will not be able to meet its target of introducing eco-labelling by the end of 1991 — the target date set in the Environmental Protection Bill . |