Example sentences of "[prep] [be] set in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and the Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington , Birmingham ( her thriller , Miss Pym Disposes , 1946 , was to be set in such a college ) .
2 Page makeup software may allow type to be set in 1 point increments and , perhaps , offer half-point line spacing .
3 The Hebrew scriptures imposed a law not to be binding on Gentiles , yet ( for all its moral imperfections ) not to be set in sharp antithesis to the new and more excellent way of love embodied in Jesus ' life and teaching .
4 Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles .
5 Standards for exposure to benzene are expected by the UK government to be set in 1993 : a level of 3 ppb is under consideration , although according to the World Health Organization there is " no known safe threshold dose " .
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