Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
2 | A revision exercise set within an environment indicates which variables or considerations are pertinent , whereas in true problem-solving , the environment is less well defined and the identification of pertinent information is a difficult aspect of solution . |
3 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
4 | A representation of ‘ Adam and Eve ’ by Wtewael should fetch $700,000–900,000 ( £466,000–600,000 ) and a still-life of fruit in a wicker basket set in a stone niche by Juan van der Hamen y Leon $250,000–350,000 ( £166,000–233,000 ) . |
5 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
6 | There were double firing slits on three sides and a metal door set in the side nearest to me . |
7 | Cati 's heart twisted , then withered inside her , like a paper taper set to the fire . |
8 | With a quick reflex action he caught the tompaw , a short stout wooden handle with a steel claw set in the end , and thumped it into the first deal of the day . |
9 | The building of the second boat — the Spanish feel they have not time to build three — will begin in March with a launch date set for the autumn . |
10 | This is a US pot-boiler set in the Old West of Oregon , where Chinese girl Lalu , played by the luminous Rosalind Chao , has been sold to a brother keeper but feistily refuses to play ball . |
11 | In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath . |
12 | Some villages had wolf skins pinned to their doors , freshly flayed , and one they came to had the head of a Rime Giant set on a stake outside the headman 's house . |
13 | Video Plan 18 is an example of a recording task set for a group of university students . |
14 | Patrick was occupying a little room at the top of Prince 's Lodge with a dormer window set in the roof . |
15 | There is a pleasant pool ( open from mid-May ) and a pool bar set in a small but pretty garden . |
16 | Both pictures depict a glass vase set on a stone plinth with variegated tulips , daffodils , irises and other flowers . |
17 | A whirlwind affair set against the romantic backdrop of the Seville Expo in southern Spain that by the law of averages had n't really stood a chance from the off . |
18 | He was wearing an elderly white linen jacket and a blue spotted bow-tie , so that , given a boater hat set at a jaunty angle , he might indeed have looked like the late Max Beerbohm . |
19 | With trembling hands he thumped an alarm button set into the wall beside the door wheel , and turned and ran . |