Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For sale ’ signs began to multiply as panic set in that the village would be blighted . |
| 2 | They usually had a thick , armoured skin , as well as possessing advanced features such as predentary bone , and sometimes a complex set of teeth set in a horny mouth . |
| 3 | Some showed neatly dressed Annamese families smiling from the doorways of houses set in small gardens beside groves of rubber trees . |
| 4 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 5 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
| 6 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 7 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 8 | Shepherd , more than any other contributor to this section , draws attention to the extent to which current efforts in the geographic information management field are constrained by the highly fragmented nature of both data suppliers and users both in sectoral and spatial terms , the great diversity of data sets in varying formats and the difficulties presented by institutional factors such as copyright provision , data ownership and the control of access to data . |
| 9 | This research project develops efficient computational fitting methods for a wide range of compound Poisson distributions for count data in geography , and in collaboration with geographers , assembles and analyses a representative collection of data sets in geography for which compound Poisson distributions are appropriate . |
| 10 | Another door , Harry had said , down by the river 's edge : and in fact , when I looked I could see it , a once-painted slab of wood set in brickwork , its bottom edge barely six inches above the water . |
| 11 | He moved into the farthest room , which had a tiny square of window set in its far wall and overlooking the rear driveway . |
| 12 | He orchestrated a number of other shows , including in 1976 Fire Angel , a version of Shakespeare 's Merchant of Venice set in the New York underworld . |
| 13 | These spaces are normally ventilated by means of airbricks set in outside walls below the level of the damp course , but these can easily become blocked , cutting off the air flow beneath the floor and allowing rot to develop . |
| 14 | The second objection was the problem of agenda setting in a participatory democracy . |
| 15 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | The tenor Jose Carreras is to open a new outdoor festival of opera set in a castle grounds . |
| 17 | The sheer quantity of writing set in school may well be creating unthinking and ineffective writers . |
| 18 | addBits — Counts the number of bits set in part of a picture . |
| 19 | You 've heard about this symbol of the brotherhood of man set in welcoming Perugia with its ancient traditions of hospitality , where every year bright-eyed , bushy-tailed youngsters come from the four corners of the world to study Italian culture and promote peace and international understanding . ’ |
| 20 | It was small , with a sloping ceiling and a pair of windows set in deep embrasures . |
| 21 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 22 | This had small panes of glass set in a large cast-iron frame . |
| 23 | When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof . |
| 24 | His search , mocked at every turn by events and other characters , sets up a tenuous connecting thread which links a whole series of episodes set in different places and periods . |
| 25 | He observes a set of violations set in a microcosm and the photographs resonate with an irony reminiscent of the manner in which the behaviour of Lilliputians was chronicled by Jonathan Swift . |
| 26 | There 's loads of TV sets in the window and I du n no which one to look at . |
| 27 | He said that only 0.04% of TV sets in Zambia were owned by Zambians . |
| 28 | The codename was chosen because rhyolite is a volcanic rock containing colourful pieces of quartz set in a mass of crystals . |
| 29 | Be that as it may , the precise chain is not known ; somehow the guild was informed and the train of events set in motion . |
| 30 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |