Example sentences of "[adv] set in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kings Quest series is basically set in the mythical kingdom of Daventry , and revolves around the adventures of King Graham , his family and subjects . |
| 2 | The clay rapidly set in a hard surface on the table and the floorboards underneath it . |
| 3 | He had roved the district in search of cinematic distraction , of some foolish , enjoyable , Hollywood farrago , preferably set in the ancient world , with all-Americans dressed in togas , and luscious drug-store dames in tailored slave-rags . |
| 4 | Intended as a ‘ slight inversion of the notion of the sexuality of the road movie ’ , says Giannaris , which is ‘ usually set in a heterosexual context ’ , his bizarre love triangle manages in the midst of its labyrinthine sexual politics to recall Kerouac , Ginsburg and the Beat Generation while at the same time exploring gay sexuality against the backdrop of the American mid-west . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps then , ’ said Viola , whose lips were still set in a Gladstonian expression , ‘ you will find it possible to bring my grandchildren along for me to have a look at . ’ |
| 6 | She was still talking about the snake that lived under the water tank when Tom swung the wheel and purred rapidly up the hospital driveway , and if his face was still set in a grim frown and he did n't seem to be listening to her words at all , she should n't have minded , because the object of the exercise had been to entertain Faye , not him . |
| 7 | With chestnut-brown hair and classical bone-structure but rather coarse skin , Sister Davenport could have been quite pretty if her face were n't permanently set in a narrow repertoire of sly looks and cruel smiles . |
| 8 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 9 | That is over a metre beyond his previous best , also set in the Victorian capital . |
| 10 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 11 | Power contests were often set in a legal framework . |
| 12 | ‘ COMPTON BEAUCHAMP house is a gem privily set in a bosky lap of the bare chalk downs where they meet the fertile flats of the White Horse Vale . |
| 13 | He was the last manager with first-hand experience of Chapman 's methods and after he died in 1956 there set in the lean period which lasted until 1970 . |
| 14 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 15 | This charming house is prettily and conveniently set in a rural position , just a few miles outside Chester . |
| 16 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 17 | What at first would appear to be an ideal set of models for those concerned with supporting children 's reading is soon seen as being too ‘ pat ’ — too set in a particular culture and in a particular moment of time . |