Example sentences of "[noun sg] set in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One evening after the kind of soft autumnal day that is an echo of the summer gone , when the sun sets in the western sky to cast great pinks ant reds across its distant clouds , Creggan was peaceful at his stance , dreaming of his own homesite . |
| 32 | It sounded like an interesting job — the play was a futuristic drama set in the twenty-first century , and the director said she 'd have a chance to really let her imagination run riot on the styles . |
| 33 | Easily Accessible : Chepstow is an interesting and historical town set in the outstanding natural beauty of the Wye Valley . |
| 34 | The main focus of their sponsorship is totally to re-equip the department 's studio with state-of-the-art electronic flash and tungsten lighting equipment ; in exchange , KJP have a distribution site on campus , serving the Lothians , and a showpiece setting in a real studio situation . |
| 35 | When deflation set in the previous gains were wiped out and more . |
| 36 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 37 | Christian Slater achieved teen-star status with his role in ‘ Heathers ’ , a stylish and witty black comedy set in a high school where suicide appeared to be the latest fad . |
| 38 | It looked like a mock-up set in a middle-class soap opera , shining with domestic trivia , very clean . |
| 39 | The second objection was the problem of agenda setting in a participatory democracy . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | A four-star hotel with its own championship golf course set in a hidden world of parkland , forest and lakes . |
| 42 | This is a comfortable modern bungalow set in a large garden in peaceful countryside , with magnificent views overlooking Etherow Country Park . |
| 43 | 20 ( — ) GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS : The superb screen version of David Mamet 's acclaimed play set in the high-pressure world of real-estate salesmen . |
| 44 | He was interrupted by Bill Martin 's return to the room , his jaw set in a determined line . |
| 45 | He observes an arable monoculture set in an unpopulated countryside . |
| 46 | Xorandor is a tale set in the near future of two twelve-year-old fraternal twins called Jip and Zab who find a talking stone at an old carn in their native Cornwall . |
| 47 | The protests had been triggered on Feb. 25 by the paper set in the 1992 General Access Test ( PGA ) ( university entrance examination ) . |
| 48 | And all this minor misery is occurring in an island set in a leaden sea of even greater misery , in a world which is presumably going to end , sooner rather than later , in some cataclysmic downpour of misery beyond imagination . |
| 49 | Why , he even once built me a tiny crystal set in an empty match box saying , ‘ Here , Kit . |
| 50 | I examined them one by one — drinks , thermometer , stethoscope , blood-pressure machine , plaster cut-down setting , emergency transfusion setting in a sealed tin , emergency tracheotomy setting in another , emergency hypodermic setting on the final sterile-towel-covered tray . |
| 51 | The Contingency Reserve has always existed as a cushion to meet unexpected demands for spending without breaking the overall planning target for public spending set in the White Papers . |
| 52 | Imagining his Sara ‘ all oppressed with gloom ’ , Coleridge 's spontaneous reply was a poem set in the descriptive frame of an evening visit to Shurton Bars , the coastal area lying beyond a rich tract of open fields to the north of Shurton Court . |
| 53 | The grey eyes were serious and the mouth and chin set in a stern line . |
| 54 | A hallucinogenic novel set in a red light district halfway between New Orleans and hell |
| 55 | A violent , harrowing but oddly tender adaptation of Hubert Selby 's famous novel set in a harsh , poverty-stricken Brooklyn opens as a strike at a local factory explodes into confrontation . |
| 56 | The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst is a beautifully written , homoerotic novel set in the pre-AIDS gay male sub-culture of London in the early 1980s . |
| 57 | They slipped like shadows through the great doorway of the Lady 's Tower , and along a dark stone passage to a low oak door set in the inner wall . |
| 58 | The story of the rise and fall of this great coal port and of the fortunes of the people who lived and worked here is told through a dramatic interpretation set in a simulated dockland environment . |
| 59 | There are barely 500 wireless sets in the whole country . |
| 60 | Behind the town lie the Pwllycrochan Woods and the famous Welsh Mountain Zoo set in the beautiful Flagstaff Gardens , home of the Zoological Society of Wales . |