Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] set in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The second objection was the problem of agenda setting in a participatory democracy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The tenor Jose Carreras is to open a new outdoor festival of opera set in a castle grounds . |
| 10 | This had small panes of glass set in a large cast-iron frame . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There 's loads of TV sets in the window and I du n no which one to look at . |
| 15 | The codename was chosen because rhyolite is a volcanic rock containing colourful pieces of quartz set in a mass of crystals . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |
| 18 | The controls apply only to new oil-burners and the environmental pressure group say they simply bring Europe into line with standards set in the US 13 years ago . |
| 19 | The " largest-is-smallest " error is less common in questions set in a measurement context . |
| 20 | There were statues in niches set in the walls , and here and there faded but interesting tapestries had been hung . |
| 21 | Pollution control problems arise from the number and variety of industrial and manufacturing processes employed in industries set in an entirely urban environment , since domestic sources , with few exceptions , are efficiently treated in a small number of large sewage works . |
| 22 | Nearly all fourth year pupils in mathematics sets in the lower half of each school 's attainment range took the reference test . |
| 23 | But The Cutting Edge ( Cert P.G. ; General ) , a sort of Dirty Dancing on ice set in the competitive world of international skating , left me cold . |