Example sentences of "[coord] set in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And set in the centre of the hollow was a house that was a picturesque jumble of gables and tall chimneys , uneven roofs and latticed windows . |
| 2 | Although it seems unlikely , it does have a history of herbal use , being listed in Gerard 's herbal ; " the floures steeped in oil and set in the Sun , are good to anoint the body that is benummed , and growne very cold " . |
| 3 | Although the little hut at Trebyan was only a couple of hundred yards from the house and the pottery it was over the slope of the hill and hemmed in by gorse and hawthorn : a single large room with a verandah , built of lap boarding , raised on a brick base and set in the side of the hill . |
| 4 | The tooth , for example , is a living organ , at equilibrium with a complex biological environment and set in the mouth close to blood vessels , nerves , sense organs and salivary glands . |
| 5 | Because of the direction in which the Earth revolves , the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west . |
| 6 | Quite often the moon as the earth moves as the earth rotates the moon appears to rise and set in the sky . |
| 7 | The figures are both shocking and tragic , but set in the context of 19th-century political convulsions in France they are relatively mild . |