Example sentences of "an [noun] set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arne Glimcher , owner of the important Pace Gallery , has just made his directorial debut with ‘ The Mambo Kings ’ , an $18 million adaptation of the novel by the Cuban-American Oscar Hijuelos an extravaganza set in a 1950s New York of Latin supper clubs and parties . |
| 2 | Sculley said he did not believe anyone had been able to build an HDTV set at a reasonable price . |
| 3 | Therefore writing on Japan in English operates , to a significant degree , within an agenda set by a liberal democratic tradition involving a commitment to private property , the role of market competition , citizenship rights and representative democratic institutions . |
| 4 | And all this minor misery is occurring in an island set in a leaden sea of even greater misery , in a world which is presumably going to end , sooner rather than later , in some cataclysmic downpour of misery beyond imagination . |
| 5 | These translation states of the coupler were then rotated to align with an arc set through the right-hand arm coupling point . |