Example sentences of "[pers pn] be set in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are set in a peaceful location only one kilometre from some of the most fantastic sand dunes in the Canaries and a short bus ride from the heart of the nightlife of Playa Del Ingles . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's set in a small valley in a remote region somewhere in the world . |
| 3 | It 's set in a large bay , about two miles deep and one mile wide , on the north west corner of the Bodrum Peninsula . |
| 4 | It 's set in a quiet location just one minute walk from the centre of the village . |
| 5 | It 's set in an instrumental ambient world a few parallel light years away from The Orb , with titles like ‘ Xtai ’ , ‘ Ptolemy ’ , ‘ Heliosphan ’ and ‘ Hedphelyn ’ that demonstrate the art of Chill-out techno and loads of bits that sound like your phone ringing . |
| 6 | It is set in a medieval castle in a historic town in Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | And then there is the international novel , which is particularly easy to translate because it is set in a generalised Nowhere and has no idiosyncratic language to disturb its translators . |
| 8 | It is set in a quiet and sunny spot just 12 minutes walk from the village . |
| 9 | It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog . |
| 10 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 11 | It was set in a trim garden girdled by white painted paling ; if not God 's cottage , certainly not his manor . |
| 12 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |