Example sentences of "[noun pl] set in [adj] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her glance slid from this face to the other and she found herself observed by pale eyes set in bloated white flesh . |
| 4 | Explore the villages of the Cotswolds with their distinctive warm honey-coloured stone buildings set in beautiful rolling countryside . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The attitudes set in late Victorian times can be traced in British industry right through into our period . |
| 7 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |