Example sentences of "[noun pl] set in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prestige developments , particularly Abingdon Marina , which is now well advanced into its 5th phase offers a comprehensive choice of quality waterside homes set in idyllic tranquil surroundings . |
| 2 | 8 country-style shops set in beautiful gardens . |
| 3 | The former actor and TV documentary director had made his feature film debut with A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) followed by Billy Liar ( 1963 ) , two modest pictures set in accurate British working-class surroundings , which introduced fresh , young players such as Alan Bates , Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie . |
| 4 | He has written novels and travel books set in Latin America , Africa , the Caribbean , India and Europe ; what he has to say about any country is worth reading . |
| 5 | Her glance slid from this face to the other and she found herself observed by pale eyes set in bloated white flesh . |
| 6 | He gave her a delicate necklace of amethysts and pearls set in Scottish gold . |
| 7 | Quite recently Jack , my mother and I went to see a film called Enemies : A Love Story , a story of three Holocaust survivors set in 1940s New York . |
| 8 | Gordon Richards , champion jockey twenty-six times between 1925 and 1952 , surpassed Fred Archer 's annual record of 246 winners set in 1885 with 259 in 1933 and then 269 in 1947 . |
| 9 | The lower part of the walls are faced with 1345 semi-precious stones of Bohemian origin , such as cornelians , amethysts , chalcedonies , jaspers , chrysoprases and agates set in gilded plaster . |
| 10 | First , it legitimized retrospectively the grant penalties associated with targets set in 1981/2 and 1982/3 and set out the context in which expenditure guidance or targets could be issued in future years . |
| 11 | Now he wants to produce his own film using historic planes set in historic places like Oxford . |
| 12 | Renowned for its authentic Italian cooking , it comprises three buildings set in beautiful gardens with breathtaking lake views . |
| 13 | Explore the villages of the Cotswolds with their distinctive warm honey-coloured stone buildings set in beautiful rolling countryside . |
| 14 | With the exception of the stained-glass east window , all the original windows of diamond-shaped leaded lights set in wrought-iron frames were removed and replaced with purpose-made steel frames containing simple rectangular side-hung casements . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ The questions set in 1993 will be seen to begin the gradual transition of style towards the 1994 papers . |
| 17 | Rayner Heppenstall , in The Connecting Door ( 1962 ) , establishes two different eras in which his characters exist simultaneously , and , in a later novel , Two Moons ( 1977 ) , concurrently sustains stories set in two different months , one appearing on all the left-hand pages of the novel , the other on the right . |
| 18 | The attitudes set in late Victorian times can be traced in British industry right through into our period . |
| 19 | Different textures define areas of the garden : the pathway is formed from large pebbles set in concrete but circular concrete stepping stones give foot comfort ! |
| 20 | Two fifteenth-century icons set in beaten silver , studded with amethyst and quartz . |
| 21 | This has a total of nine teeth set in three rows , and could well have come from a lock fitted to the door of a villa . |
| 22 | Some showed neatly dressed Annamese families smiling from the doorways of houses set in small gardens beside groves of rubber trees . |
| 23 | Thirty miles away , Wroxham Barns has a collection of traditional 18th-century working barns set in ten acres of parkland . |
| 24 | 12 buildings all with displays set in 2½ acres , including the oldest photographic studio in the country . |
| 25 | The maximum compensation we will pay , within the levels set in each service , is the market value of the item lost or damaged in the post . |
| 26 | In Spain , the paradox of Europe is that it is both the whip to modernise Spain by destroying structures of corporatism , grandeur and clericalism that held back the country for centuries , and , at the same time , it demands enormous sacrifices paid by the poor as Solchaga and Gonzáles seek to achieve a capitalism and productivity equal to levels set in northern Europe . |
| 27 | Built in 1806 with lots of original features set in pleasant surroundings , guest lounge with open coal fire . |
| 28 | Stakes set in cut-out notches hold the steps firmly |
| 29 | It was small , with a sloping ceiling and a pair of windows set in deep embrasures . |
| 30 | It had been built in the late eighteenth century , two storeys high , shallow slate roof , red brick , seven windows set in ashlar along the upper floor , six below and the front door set centrally under a portico and pillared porch . |