Example sentences of "it [be] set [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's set in a small valley in a remote region somewhere in the world . |
| 2 | It 's set in a large bay , about two miles deep and one mile wide , on the north west corner of the Bodrum Peninsula . |
| 3 | It 's set in a quiet location just one minute walk from the centre of the village . |
| 4 | Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool . |
| 5 | It is set in a medieval castle in a historic town in Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is set in a quiet and sunny spot just 12 minutes walk from the village . |
| 8 | It was set with a full English breakfast — well , she had told Michele she was always hungry — and while she poured herself some coffee and began on the bacon and eggs she recalled their first meeting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was set in a trim garden girdled by white painted paling ; if not God 's cottage , certainly not his manor . |
| 11 | It was set around a complete quadrangle , and built of rusticated stone . |