Example sentences of "[adv] set in [art] [noun] " 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 film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers .
4 The cost or price of borrowing or lending is thus set in the capital market .
5 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 .
6 the results are impressive as the steam seals the meat and stops the protein oozing out as it is already setting in the joint .
7 The north doorway has a remarkable tympanum deeply set in the porch like that at Autun .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 One was The Last Days of America , the other The Fall of the Russian Empire , both set in the future .
12 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 .
13 He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before .
14 Picturesquely set in the Dean Village overlooking the tumbling waters of the Water of Leith , the Dragonara is a favourite place for functions and executive get-togethers .
15 Picturesquely set in the Dean .
16 ( 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 .
17 One who had followed the King 's army from London to Coventry was ‘ taken by the soldiers , and first led about the city then set in a pillory , after in a cage then ducked in a river , and at last banished the city ’ .
18 But then take a hospital series like Casualty which has been quite explicitly set in the context of a decaying health service .
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