Example sentences of "set [prep] an [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in an exclusive residential area of Rome , 1¼ miles from the Spanish Steps , the Hotel Claridge is a purpose-built , modern , international hotel . |
| 2 | I caught up with him at his villa just outside Salzburg , which overlooks a small vineyard , set against an imposing mountainous backdrop . |
| 3 | A low wattage bulb glowed half-heartedly beneath a grubby glass lampshade and on the wall to her right was a light switch , round and brown , and set against an embossed biscuit-coloured paper , fading and patchily stained with damp . |
| 4 | Fronting the tiers of frivolously gilded boxes , just discernible in the gloom of the Teatro Poliziano , the stage appears to be brilliantly lit , set with an all-purpose lyric opera backdrop . |
| 5 | Britain 's national energy strategy must be set within an overall European framework , with the aim of reducing pollution , improving energy efficiency and boosting the use of renewables . |
| 6 | History in the primary school therefore presents the paradox of some fine work , which is set in an uncertain curricular pattern , and is too rarely part of a firm curriculum plan . |
| 7 | This is a modern , recently established hotel , set in an historic listed building which formerly housed a famous local distillery . |
| 8 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 9 | Guerrillas is set in an imaginary Caribbean country , whose capital city is by the sea . |
| 10 | It 's set in an instrumental ambient world a few parallel light years away from The Orb , with titles like ‘ Xtai ’ , ‘ Ptolemy ’ , ‘ Heliosphan ’ and ‘ Hedphelyn ’ that demonstrate the art of Chill-out techno and loads of bits that sound like your phone ringing . |
| 11 | With Geoffrey Parsons ( piano ) 8pm Royal Opera House , Covent Garden ( 240 1066 ) £1.50-£15 ADDRESSES AND BOOKING Barbican Centre , Silk Street EC2 ( 638 8891 ) South Bank Centre ( Royal Festival Hall , Queen Elizabeth Hall , Purcell Room ) , South Bank SE1 ( 928 8800 ) St John 's , Smith Square SW1 ( 222 1061 ) Wigmore Hall , Wigmore Street W1 ( 935 2141 ) OPERA CITY OF BIRMINGHAM TOURING OPERA ‘ Ghanashyam — A Broken Branch ’ CBTO 's most adventurous project so far unites 16 of India 's leading classical performers with nine British-based Asian artists in the premiere performances of Pandit Ravi Shankar 's new musical theatre piece , a spectacular marriage of Indian classical music , song and dance ( Kathak , Bharatanatyam and Kathakali ) set in an idyllic early 20th-century India and exploring the destructive effects of drink and drugs upon a village dancer , played by Kathak wizard Durga Lal . |