Example sentences of "[adv] set in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the tea 's all set in the dining-room as usual and has been for … let me see ’ — she put her head on one side — ‘ how many years ? ’ |
| 2 | However , this tablet was only set in the wall in 1456 , and is in conflict with an account written about events on 17 September 1387 . |
| 3 | The cost or price of borrowing or lending is thus set in the capital market . |
| 4 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 5 | The north doorway has a remarkable tympanum deeply set in the porch like that at Autun . |
| 6 | The film flatly denied that there was any problem with dolphin entanglements in drift-nets , saying that the nets were always set in the direction of the prevailing currents , and as marine mammals generally swam with the currents , entanglement was unlikely . |
| 7 | Here Campra made a special feature of a formula Lully used on occasion : the magic/supernatural music is almost always set in the key of VI in relation to a preceding minor key . |
| 8 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens , but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut 's tottering gable end , and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway . |
| 9 | One was The Last Days of America , the other The Fall of the Russian Empire , both set in the future . |
| 10 | The world record for speed was probably set in the afternoon of 12 August 1966 , by the London Evening News , At 3. 19 pm a gunman on the run shot three policemen dead in West London . |
| 11 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) obtaining familiarity with the types of question which have been consistently set in the past , and making a tentative guess at the likely questions for your examination . |
| 13 | But then take a hospital series like Casualty which has been quite explicitly set in the context of a decaying health service . |