Example sentences of "[noun sg] set on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun sets on a bad week for the BBC |
| 2 | EVEN if the sun sets on the ailing TV show Eldorado , it will be good news for star Buki Armstrong , the beauty who plays Gerry in the sangria soap opera . |
| 3 | I like the sun setting on a calm sea — ’ His breath hissed through his teeth . |
| 4 | As the sun set on a great day , they all made their way home , awaiting the next challenge , so if anybody out there fancies their chances , just ring the Sheffield Pest Control branch . |
| 5 | Opposite her was a small washstand with a coarse crockery toilet set on a fake marble top . |
| 6 | Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island . |
| 7 | Pre-construction work is already underway on the first phase , a 328,000 sq ft building set on a 20 acre green field site within Edinburgh Park , due for completion in Autumn 1995 . |
| 8 | So if you have got your heart set on a big wedding for the kids or a fast car when you retire , it is worth putting some money away as soon as possible to make sure the clouds of inflation do n't darken your horizon , adds Mr. Pinnell . |
| 9 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 10 | A church set on the rocky bluff by the Celtic sect of the Culdees ( ‘ Companions of God ’ ) later submitted to Roman usage and to the transformation of its survivors into Austin canons . |
| 11 | Those of classical design and inspiration are infrequent , the most impressive being the tetrastyle prostyle temple set on a high podium and dedicated to Sulis Minerva at Bath . |
| 12 | She had polished the glasses and checked there were seven Capstan in the cigarette box set on the low table beside the settee . |
| 13 | Set into the floor near the entrance is a brass strip running the width of the building to a sundial set on the left wall . |
| 14 | Or do you strain every sinew to go for that elusive target set on a small plateau ? |
| 15 | I visualized Alison as living in a classic North Oxford mansion set on a bosky avenue amid the murmuring of innumerable dons , so I was surprised to find myself directed up the hill to Headington . |