Example sentences of "story set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Contrast this with major production centres such as Hollywood , New York , London , where people ‘ make films ’ , about anything , not just stories set in the locale . |
| 4 | Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island . |
| 5 | The 23-year-old played Calypso in Channel 4 's steamy story set during Second World War . |
| 6 | The embarrassments of first love and sexuality , and particularly the nature of violence and cruelty , become bearable or ‘ handlable ’ in a story set in the past . |
| 7 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 8 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 9 | English actress Julie Christie has been co-starring with Canadian Donald Sutherland in ‘ The Railway Station Man ’ , a rural love story set in Donegal and directed by Britain 's Michael Whyte , American Ned Beatty recently completed his starring role as Irish tenor Josef Locke in ‘ Hear My Song ’ , directed by first time British director Peter Chelsom . |
| 10 | Simply beautiful and completely enchanting story set in Long Island in 1959 . |
| 11 | Bustles and antimacassars are fine , but most readers will add those from their own imaginations to any story set in Victorian times . |
| 12 | This is a magical-mythical story set in pre-colonial Mali . |
| 13 | Tell a story set in the past and decide where you will stop to let the class take over . |
| 14 | Winner of a prize at Cannes , and the most unexpectedly entertaining movie of the year is this very dynamic story set in London during the Silver Jubilee year of 1977 . |
| 15 | Or , still in New York , there is Peter Yates ' The House On Carroll Street ( Virgin ) , a gripping suspense story set against the background of the McCarthy inquisition . |
| 16 | In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath . |
| 17 | If reading Alison 's story sets off alarm bells in your head about whether you too have an exercise obsession , or perhaps have a friend or sister who does , then turn to ‘ Obsessions : Where to get help ’ . |