Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set between the mighty River Severn and the scenic grace of the River Wye , The Royal Forest of Dean , for centuries the hunting ground of Kings , is rich in customs and traditions . |
| 2 | Set in a quiet Midlands suburb , Geoff Brown 's home has all the style and sophistication of the Georgian era as well as cultural interest inspired by his travels round the world . |
| 3 | Set in the fictitious Sussex small town of Badgers Heath , just outside Gatwick — the probable destination , coincidentally , of huge piles of the book — it is full of the obligatory two-dimensional characters with hilarious names ( Rosie Greenleaf , a buxom and promiscuous merry widow ; Dennis Reason , a bank manager with dark secrets ; Nick Grabbe , a disgraced tabloid journalist , and so on ) . |
| 4 | Set in the pretty Lanarkshire town of Biggar the gasworks were the last in Scotland , now preserved for future generations to show how this once thriving industry provided gas for both private homes and street lighting . |
| 5 | Set in the beautiful Cotswold countryside near the village of Broadway , in 1919 Snowshill Manor became the home of Charles Paget Wade and his subsequent eclectic collection of artefacts , including among other things clocks , bicycles , musical instruments and samurai warriors ' armour . |
| 6 | Lorrimer had one set as the Senior P.S.O . |
| 7 | EMMA Thompson is set for a glittering Hollywood career as she became Britain 's hottest chance to win an Oscar . |
| 8 | But , after this , the scene was set for the 1936 Berlin Olympics where , as Richard Mandell points out : ‘ Racial policy permeated all aspects of German life in the Nazi era . |
| 9 | The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine . |
| 10 | At the time of its foundation it must have been a serenely beautiful sight to behold — spreading golden-white stonework set amid the pastoral Lincolnshire greens . |
| 11 | Gabriela Sabatini had to battle through a tough second set against a determined Conchita Martinez on Sunday to win her second consecutive Family Circle Magazine Cup at Hilton Head , South Carolina . |
| 12 | On July 13 , 1989 , the European Commission sent to the West German government a " reasoned opinion " that West German drinking water failed to meet the standards set under a 1980 EC directive . |
| 13 | Arne Glimcher , owner of the important Pace Gallery , has just made his directorial debut with ‘ The Mambo Kings ’ , an $18 million adaptation of the novel by the Cuban-American Oscar Hijuelos an extravaganza set in a 1950s New York of Latin supper clubs and parties . |
| 14 | Legend has it that Rhodes , largest of the Dodecanese islands set in the blue Aegean Sea , was home to the sun god Helios … and little wonder given this island 's mild climate and long sun-drenched summer days . |
| 15 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
| 16 | This glorious late medieval home is set in the beautiful Usk valley , midway between Abergavenny and Brecon . |
| 17 | The buildings date to the early 13th century , and the abbey is set in the beautiful Llandeilo hills . |
| 18 | The play is set in an old Thames warehouse which has been converted into a fringe theatre ( the seats certainly look authentically uncomfortable ) . |
| 19 | THE BBC last night axed Eldorado , the supersoap set on the sunny Costa del Sol that turned into a multi-million pound flop . |
| 20 | THE BBC last night axed Eldorado , the supersoap set on the sunny Costa del Sol that turned into a multi-million pound flop . |
| 21 | The European Association for the Conservation of Energy says member states will not now be able to meet the targets set at the UNCED Rio summit [ see ED 59/60 ] . |
| 22 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 23 | The 1834 breed standards set by the Royal Jersey Agricultural Society and drawn up by distinguished island breeders showed parti-coloured engravings of the breed but made no reference to the colour of the coat as no importance was attached to such a superficial factor ; however , the light-coloured muzzle ring was specified , and a deep orange colour within the ears , while the skin was of a ‘ good ’ colour . |
| 24 | The mills are also breaking pollution levels set by the local NRAs which WEN claims are inadequate in the first place . |