Example sentences of "[art] [noun] set in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 2 | One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Relevant costing features in many of the questions set in the Financial Decisions paper at Conversion Course , and it is often these questions that receive the poorest answers . |
| 5 | The protests had been triggered on Feb. 25 by the paper set in the 1992 General Access Test ( PGA ) ( university entrance examination ) . |
| 6 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It looked like a mock-up set in a middle-class soap opera , shining with domestic trivia , very clean . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | Arne Glimcher , owner of the important Pace Gallery , has just made his directorial debut with ‘ The Mambo Kings ’ , an $18 million adaptation of the novel by the Cuban-American Oscar Hijuelos an extravaganza set in a 1950s New York of Latin supper clubs and parties . |
| 13 | And all this minor misery is occurring in an island set in a leaden sea of even greater misery , in a world which is presumably going to end , sooner rather than later , in some cataclysmic downpour of misery beyond imagination . |