Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have thus found the study of pupil deviance a fertile valley for optimism to set beside the forbidding mountain-like permanence of theories of gender reproduction . |
| 2 | So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 . |
| 3 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 4 | Set in a narrow medieval street , the building dates from the 14th century and is dotted with authentic 14th and 15th century furniture , fine antiques and art treasures , original pillars and sweeping stone staircases . |
| 5 | Set in the early 1980s , and about liberal politicians cleaning up a small town , it will , Beswick hopes , ‘ do for Little Rock what John Major did n't do for Huntingdon ’ . |
| 6 | Set in the late 1950's — at the end of post-war rationing and at the beginning of an era of new affluence — this new production of A TASTE OF HONEY , an off-beat comedy drama , brings to the stage the lives of five people living in the Manchester area . |
| 7 | Set in the late seventeenth century , this story of a three-cornered relationship depends on active events vigorously described but ill supported by very generalised characters . |
| 8 | SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring . |
| 9 | Set in an exclusive residential area of Rome , 1¼ miles from the Spanish Steps , the Hotel Claridge is a purpose-built , modern , international hotel . |
| 10 | Set on a busy shaded , tree-lined street , the Miramare is only 150 yards from the beach . |
| 11 | Set on the beautiful sandy beach at Negambo , the modern Browns Beach Hotel is notable for its cuisine and entertainment . |
| 12 | The harp is here set to the dominant 7th in the key of E. Six bars ' rest provide time and to spare for setting the pedals . |
| 13 | No date was set for a planned third meeting . |
| 14 | Salisbury , an eager nightwatchman , held out against some torrid deliveries midst some frantic appealing , and all seemed well set for a gripping fourth and fifth day . |
| 15 | The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command . |
| 16 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 17 | Bold stripes in any one of six colours are set against a crisp white background . |
| 18 | First , what are the world 's protected areas and how many square miles set against the 54,807,420 square miles of the earth 's land surface ? |
| 19 | With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics . |
| 20 | In fact , it is basically seen as the professionals banding together to protect their own — especially so when set against the various Royal College of Surgeons ' statements that testing of patients after operative accidents is reasonable whether or not the patient agrees . |
| 21 | His real problem , though , is with the film 's director , Alan Parker , who once made a thriller set against the American black civil rights struggle — with two white heroes . |
| 22 | I caught up with him at his villa just outside Salzburg , which overlooks a small vineyard , set against an imposing mountainous backdrop . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Cloudberries , or knoutberries as they 're known in the Dales , studded the moor , set amongst the dark fleshy green leaves like clusters of red beads . |
| 25 | He saw Steve 's small pretty-boy 's face set like a hard little mask . |
| 26 | It was a gabled Victorian house set behind a high red brick wall in the heart of the city and as Rachel drew on to the gravel forecourt she sat for a moment admiring the mass of copper beeches that surrounded the house . |
| 27 | Then came a narrow lavatory with an old-fashioned bowl of decorated porcelain and a mahogany seat with , above it , a hanging chain set under a single high window . |
| 28 | It was set with a full English breakfast — well , she had told Michele she was always hungry — and while she poured herself some coffee and began on the bacon and eggs she recalled their first meeting . |
| 29 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
| 30 | 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 . |