Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] set in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The push-turn control knobs are set in a toughened glass panel with high visibility luminous indicator discs , graduated in colour from ‘ off ’ to ‘ full on ’ behind windows . |
2 | His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness . |
3 | Her grey eyes were set in a brown skin smooth like the shell of a hen 's egg . |
4 | The long , carved lips were set in a tight line and the straight black brows were screwed up in a frown . |
5 | Close to the busy A48 , between Lydney and Aylburton , these beautiful rhododendron and azalea gardens are set in a peaceful lakeland valley . |
6 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
7 | The invisible setting — a technique by which the stones are set in an unbroken mosaic of colour seemingly independent of metal support — was introduced by Van Cleef in 1937 . |
8 | Among many-celled animals , various types of worm and some shellfish have a similar arrangement , but the pigment-backed light-sensitive cells are set in a little cup . |
9 | Guerrillas is set in an imaginary Caribbean country , whose capital city is by the sea . |