Example sentences of "set in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person . |
| 2 | Amongst the British films selected are DAKOTA ROAD , the new release from the prolific Working Title company , a tale of sexual awakening set in the East Anglian fens ; CLOSE MY EYES , Stephen Poliakoff 's second film as director , which stars Saskia Reeves who is also in THE BRIDGE , a new film which takes an impressionist painting as the starting point of a tale of illicit passion in the repressive Victorian era . |
| 3 | The pool forms a real focal point from both the house and patio , while the sound of water , falling from a mask set in the wall , will be delightful on a hot summer 's day . |
| 4 | If it ever did , it was always as a part which was apart , separate , a ‘ precious stone set in the silver sea . |
| 5 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 6 | This is set in the hillside below the actual Dentelles — a line of rock blades which run like a dragon 's spine along the top of the hill above the wine village of Gigondas , near Carpentras . |
| 7 | Suddenly on the screen there appears a clock set in the centre of the kind of sumptuous salon that epoch , and Feuillade , alone had a taste for ; it shows 4.40 p.m . |
| 8 | The Artificer commonly goes clad like the Yeoman : the Yeoman like the Gentleman : the Gentleman as the Nobleman : the Nobleman as the Prince : which bringeth great confusion , and utterly overturneth the order which God hath set in the states and conditions of men . |
| 9 | The controls apply only to new oil-burners and the environmental pressure group say they simply bring Europe into line with standards set in the US 13 years ago . |
| 10 | She walked across the cobbles and pointed to a plaque set in the wall of the Library . |
| 11 | Robert Hamer planned to follow Kind Hearts and Coronets with a sexually-charged film set in the West Indies , with Vivien Leigh in the key role , but this was cancelled two weeks before shooting began and he quit the studio in a huff . |
| 12 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 13 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 14 | One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s . |
| 15 | The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be . |
| 16 | Today we approached from the most picturesque direction , through a stile set in the wall of the narrow stone bridge whose elegant arches span the burn 's deep-cut ravine . |
| 17 | It is a familiar theme in Latin American fiction , and something of the flavour of this part of Panama can be gleaned from Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years Of Solitude , set in the forgotten swamps of Colombia ( of which Panama once formed part ) . |
| 18 | I have never eaten brawn — no doubt I should do so — so can not comment on it except to say that it is made from the pig 's head which is simmered with herbs and spices ; the resulting meat is set in the naturally produced aspic . |
| 19 | Each night during a 6-month working season , 40,000–60,000 km ( about 30,000–45,000 miles ) of drift-net is set in the North Pacific Ocean - enough to encircle the planet and cross the Pacific for a second time . |
| 20 | The film flatly denied that there was any problem with dolphin entanglements in drift-nets , saying that the nets were always set in the direction of the prevailing currents , and as marine mammals generally swam with the currents , entanglement was unlikely . |
| 21 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 22 | In the houses — never a window opened — in the cars , in the gruesome , echoing hypermarkets set in the middle of nowhere ( where they wished you a ‘ nice day ’ at 10 pm ) . |
| 23 | Charity looked with disapproval at the solid wireless set in the corner of Mona 's otherwise Edwardian sitting-room . |
| 24 | Groups or pairs of ladies , often sisters or cousins , ran hotels of the kind she required and they understood the necessity for quietness and a late-night pot of tea , for Egyptian cotton sheets and a hot water bottle and plenty of cushions , for sufficient pastries at the tea table and permission to have one 's own wireless set in the bedroom . |
| 25 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 26 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens , but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut 's tottering gable end , and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway . |
| 27 | The Last Honeymoon by Shelley Weiner Constable , £13.99 SET IN the uncompromisingly suburban surroundings of Golders Green , Shelley Weiner 's new novel proves that it 's possible to satirise Jewish family life with a touch more subtlety than the British Telecom commercials . |
| 28 | The great advance in Mozart 's time was operas set in the here and now . |
| 29 | An opera set in the camps would be a very different thing . |
| 30 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |