Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
2 | Negotiations between the government and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) continued during late 1989 and early 1990 over the terms of future structural adjustment and standby facilities , but progress towards an agreement was impeded by the breaching of targets set under the IMF 's monitoring programme . |
3 | TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties . |
4 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
5 | A word or combination of letters set as a single unit . |
6 | The spate of films set during the Vietnam War which reached the screen during the late 1980s highlighted the reluctance with which Hollywood approached the subject for many years . |
7 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
8 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
9 | The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves . |
10 | They usually had a thick , armoured skin , as well as possessing advanced features such as predentary bone , and sometimes a complex set of teeth set in a horny mouth . |
11 | He observes a set of violations set in a microcosm and the photographs resonate with an irony reminiscent of the manner in which the behaviour of Lilliputians was chronicled by Jonathan Swift . |