Example sentences of "set in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the giant owls of the region , about the size of an Eagle Owl ( p. 177 ) , but with longer tail , rounder head and no ear tufts , smaller yellow eyes set in a facial disc with concentric dark rings , and a black patch on the chin . |
| 2 | The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest , which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent . |
| 3 | Her eldest brother Mickey was walking up and down the room talking , his face set in a dark scowl . |
| 4 | In addition , it runs an Annual International Graduate Summer School which offers courses in aspects of modern librarianship , set in a world-wide context . |
| 5 | This Grade 2 Listed Building is set in a rocky cliff face pointing out to sea a little way along the foreshore . |
| 6 | In addition there is in the surrounding parkland , a swimming pool , set in a panoramic position , ideal for a relaxing dip , a tennis court for the energetic and horse riding facilities for those who really want to enjoy one of the region 's favourite country pursuits . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The story of the rise and fall of this great coal port and of the fortunes of the people who lived and worked here is told through a dramatic interpretation set in a simulated dockland environment . |
| 9 | J. Vijayatunga 's novel Grass For My Feet , set in a Low Country village fifteen kilometres from Galle , portrays more typical villagers who were familiar with the proceedings and personalities of the Galle courts . |
| 10 | This is a really special hotel set in a traffic-free courtyard just minutes from the Piazza Duomo . |
| 11 | Enclosed bus/ tram stops that shelter and welcome the passenger need to be set in a traffic-calmed environment , with pedestrian priority across surrounding roads and –unctions.43 in residential areas , these pedestrian networks and public transport stops should be so organised as to provide ‘ safe routes to school ’ , as in the Danish examples discussed in Chapter Ten . |
| 12 | Nadine 's mouth set in a firm , determined line . |
| 13 | Her face was flushed , but her mouth set in a firm line . |
| 14 | This means that an ambiguous word form set in a disambiguating context may well carry more information than can be accounted for in terms of interaction between the context-independent meaning of the word form , and the semantic properties of the context . |
| 15 | The attractions include the Roman walls , the castle , the cathedral , the racecourse , the zoo and the famous ‘ Rows ’ ( shops set in a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century environment ) . |
| 16 | Louis Malle 's moving , semi-autobiographical film is set in a provincial boarding school at Fontainebleu in the last months of World War Two ; twelve-year-old Quentin may be bright , but he does n't understand why new boy Jean Bornet should be so bullied by pupils and protected by teachers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Close to the busy A48 , between Lydney and Aylburton , these beautiful rhododendron and azalea gardens are set in a peaceful lakeland valley . |
| 19 | This is a modern hotel set in a peaceful residential area , about 300 yards from the lake and the centre of Torbole . |
| 20 | In this way , the ostensibly pro-Zionist sentiments , as well as the ostensible abandonment of crude racism by the Nationalism Today faction , need to be set in a wider argumentative context . |
| 21 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Amanda Harris plays her as a termagant who steams about like the mad woman in the attic , her face set in a perpetual lockjawed scowl . |
| 24 | The Lacona is set in a tranquil garden which rolls down towards a sheltered sandy beach just a few minutes walk away . |
| 25 | Vargas Llosa 's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy , oscillates between third-person narration and monologue ( interior and spoken ) to bring out the gulf between the boys ' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self , and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's set in a small valley in a remote region somewhere in the world . |
| 27 | Yet her mind had been so parched by convention that had her full complement of guests not interacted in the manner of characters in a well-made play , set in a small hotel in Scandinavia , she would not have been able to cope . |
| 28 | There is a pleasant pool ( open from mid-May ) and a pool bar set in a small but pretty garden . |
| 29 | We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy , which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it . |
| 30 | A pot of ch'ban , a beverage which Alexei thought was quite similar to earth stock coffee , bubbled quietly on a burner which was set in a shallow bowl of sand on the table at her side . |