Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] set in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 2 | It 's set in the Ammer valley some 85kms from Munich , surrounded by grass and flower covered foothills that steepen and rear into high mountains . |
| 3 | Again , it is set in the most spectacular countryside and well worth taking your camera to . |
| 4 | It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him . |
| 5 | It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog . |
| 6 | It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life . |
| 7 | Frighteningly true-to-life , and very funny , it is set in the fashion business and stars Joanna Lumley as a coked-up magazine editor and Jennifer Saunders as a drunken PR woman . |
| 8 | It is set in the Whitebrook Valley , just a mile from the Tintern Forest where the peace and quiet is disturbed only by a gently babbling brook and birdsong . |
| 9 | It is set in the middle of a modern housing estate and is a sheer oasis out of the past . |
| 10 | It was set in the middle of a corn field , and she turned between the tall stalks of corn and followed the track up to the barn . |
| 11 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |