Example sentences of "[art] [noun] set in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitudes set in late Victorian times can be traced in British industry right through into our period . |
| 2 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 3 | As a little compensation I begged Captain King to let us remove either to Bruny , or to Muscle Bay , which would make very little difference when once the wind set in fair , and it was accordingly settled that at daylight we should sail for Muscle Bay . ’ |
| 4 | Here some of the assembled company sat watching the sun set in rosy Technicolor behind a jagged peak . |
| 5 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 6 | In fact the rot set in 15 years ago when Dr Coggan asked for a meeting with Jim Callaghan to lobby for the Church to be exempted from a two per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 7 | ‘ The questions set in 1993 will be seen to begin the gradual transition of style towards the 1994 papers . |
| 8 | The opening set in particular was something of a disappointment . |
| 9 | I had never fully appreciated what gens the Finzi set in particular contains , with the languorously beautiful ‘ Romance ’ — second of the five — sounding like a variation on the spiritual , Deep River , and the final ‘ Fughetta ’ a breezy and witty hornpipe . |
| 10 | The maximum compensation we will pay , within the levels set in each service , is the market value of the item lost or damaged in the post . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The sound will then be re-recorded in binaural stereo using a dummy human head with a microphone set in each ear . |
| 13 | The second was a paperback , a romance set in Ancient Greece . |
| 14 | These include a pool set in sunny terraces , a chic cocktail bar and a lounge , several beachside snack-bars and an elegant restaurant where a buffet-style candlelit dinner can be enjoyed outside to the accompaniment of light music . |
| 15 | His house is a mansion set in 66 acres . |
| 16 | The models will be architecturally very similar , usually with all ( or most of ) an instruction set in common ; further , transput devices and main storage may be transferable between models . |
| 17 | In Gulliver 's Travels ( Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ) , 2 vols. , 1726–27 , the true first edition has a frontispiece oval portrait with an inscription set in two lines beneath the oval , not round it . |