Example sentences of "[pron] is set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person . |
| 2 | Similarly , in La neige etait sale ( The Stain on the Snow ) which is set in an occupied country , has as its hero Frank Friedmaier — a thug who kills for fun and arranges the rape of a young woman who loves him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My first novel , Necropolis , which is set in my home town of Glasgow , will be published this May . |
| 5 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |
| 6 | Of his several works of fiction , the best known is the novel , The House with the Green Shutters , which is set in Ochiltree . |
| 7 | From the outside the hotel , which is set in beautiful gardens , looked very grand with its beamed exterior and red and cream brickwork . |
| 8 | Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year . |
| 9 | We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy , which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it . |
| 10 | I therefore thought I would write to let your readers know about Brantridge Park — a beautiful mansion house once owned by Queen Victoria 's grand-daughter , Princess Alice , which is set in the heart of the Sussex countryside . |
| 11 | History in the primary school therefore presents the paradox of some fine work , which is set in an uncertain curricular pattern , and is too rarely part of a firm curriculum plan . |
| 12 | Some like " Diplomacy " , which is set in pre-First World War Europe , involve pupils in negotiations with other " countries " , setting territorial goals , and forming ( and often breaking ) alliances . |
| 13 | The lotus design , however is nearly identical to the flower which is set in the central square of a geometrical device in the St. Nicholas Street pavement ( pI . |
| 14 | Up to 30 actors were involved in the fierce gun battle scene which is set in south Armagh but actually shot in Millisle , Co Down . |
| 15 | In comparison to this , ‘ The Disappearance ’ which is set in the 1970's is altogether a different type of community . |
| 16 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is set in the first decade of the twentieth century , in rural Georgia and most of the characters are black Americans as are those in ‘ The Friends ’ which is set in the seventies , in Harlem , New York . |
| 17 | It is set in a medieval castle in a historic town in Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Taken from a one-act play by Prosper Merimee , it is set in 18th-century Peru and focuses on a company of travelling players performing in the tradition of the commedia dell'arte . |
| 20 | Again , it is set in the most spectacular countryside and well worth taking your camera to . |
| 21 | It is set in a quiet and sunny spot just 12 minutes walk from the village . |
| 22 | It is set in Peru where the stunt man has been making a movie . |
| 23 | It is set in South Africa but is not primarily political and is not about apartheid ; however , it subtly reflects the racial and social strains in South African society . |
| 24 | It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him . |
| 25 | In cases where a verbal ability test is set , it is set in English . |
| 26 | It is set in Bristol and is heavily autobiographical . |
| 27 | It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog . |
| 28 | It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life . |
| 29 | Frighteningly true-to-life , and very funny , it is set in the fashion business and stars Joanna Lumley as a coked-up magazine editor and Jennifer Saunders as a drunken PR woman . |
| 30 | It is set in Mexico 's magnificent White Sands National Park — and anyway , any movie starring Willem Dafoe is worth looking at ! |