Example sentences of "set in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play is set in a imaginary African Republic , Kambawe . |
| 2 | My old dream of a play set in a boxing-ring , he wrote . |
| 3 | These materials are sometimes used in combination — aluminium doors may be set in a timber sub-frame , for example , and upvc doors usually have steel reinforcement inside their box sections for extra strength . |
| 4 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 5 | Nasa said the plutonium is in marshmallow-size nuggets , each encased in three layers of protective material and set in a ceramic honeycomb , in turn contained in a cylinder made of layers of metal and fibreglass ¾ in thick . |
| 6 | This play which was in Boston in 1911 is set in a farmyard . |
| 7 | The scene was set in a cabin on the boat with two men lone Fernandell and a beautiful Tahitian girl wearing only a grass skirt . |
| 8 | Leila , his girlfriend , has John Lennon 's other pair of glasses , but behind her pair are sparkling eyes set in a face that is always cheerful . |
| 9 | Once diarrhoeal disease has set in a baby will go under in just two or three days . |
| 10 | Front Page Story ( 1953 ) is set in a newspaper office , where a harassed editor played by Jack Hawkins deals with homeless children , a scientist wanting to spill atomic secrets , a journalist 's crisis of conscience and a wife who plans to walk out on him . |
| 11 | It is set in a medieval castle in a historic town in Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's set in a small valley in a remote region somewhere in the world . |
| 13 | They could wash their hands in one of the most glamorous marble basins in England , set in a marble niche with a scallop-shaped roof and with water gushing from the mouth of a mandarin mask . |
| 14 | ‘ COMPTON BEAUCHAMP house is a gem privily set in a bosky lap of the bare chalk downs where they meet the fertile flats of the White Horse Vale . |
| 15 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
| 16 | A hallucinogenic novel set in a red light district halfway between New Orleans and hell |
| 17 | You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees . |
| 18 | It was set in a trim garden girdled by white painted paling ; if not God 's cottage , certainly not his manor . |
| 19 | Yet her mind had been so parched by convention that had her full complement of guests not interacted in the manner of characters in a well-made play , set in a small hotel in Scandinavia , she would not have been able to cope . |
| 20 | Amanda Harris plays her as a termagant who steams about like the mad woman in the attic , her face set in a perpetual lockjawed scowl . |
| 21 | And then there is the international novel , which is particularly easy to translate because it is set in a generalised Nowhere and has no idiosyncratic language to disturb its translators . |
| 22 | Since 1981 he has lived in Paris and this is his first ‘ French ’ novel , set in a fashionable Parisian intellectual world where the principal characters sit a health club discussing this and that , with the author , from time to time , joining in . |
| 23 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 24 | They are set in a peaceful location only one kilometre from some of the most fantastic sand dunes in the Canaries and a short bus ride from the heart of the nightlife of Playa Del Ingles . |
| 25 | FRIDAY : Cruise north again to the pretty mainland resort of Parga , set in a beautiful bay surrounded by mountains . |
| 26 | A delightful modern hotel , the Moser is built in typical Tyrolean style and set in a quiet but central part of St. Johann . |
| 27 | This is a centrally located bed and breakfast pension in Going , set in a large garden , so it 's also very quiet . |
| 28 | It 's set in a quiet location just one minute walk from the centre of the village . |
| 29 | It is set in a quiet and sunny spot just 12 minutes walk from the village . |
| 30 | Chalet Style accommodation set in a beautiful , green valley , with its own sandy beach … an ideal Club for families . |