Example sentences of "set [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Set in an exclusive residential area of Rome , 1¼ miles from the Spanish Steps , the Hotel Claridge is a purpose-built , modern , international hotel . |
| 4 | Set on a busy shaded , tree-lined street , the Miramare is only 150 yards from the beach . |
| 5 | No date was set for a planned third meeting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Bold stripes in any one of six colours are set against a crisp white background . |
| 8 | I caught up with him at his villa just outside Salzburg , which overlooks a small vineyard , set against an imposing mountainous backdrop . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He saw Steve 's small pretty-boy 's face set like a hard little mask . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You will be able to choose between a single or a double oven , with an eye-level grill or a grill at waist level , often set into a small top oven . |
| 17 | The fireplace in question was set into a huge thick wall that partly divided the main room . |
| 18 | Imhotep , however , created for his king a six-stepped pyramid tomb , which rose to a height of 204 feet ( 62.2m ) and which was set within a rectangular walled enclosure containing various ritual buildings , the whole funerary complex being constructed with stone . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest , which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent . |
| 21 | This is a modern hotel set in a peaceful residential area , about 300 yards from the lake and the centre of Torbole . |
| 22 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 23 | In this way , the ostensibly pro-Zionist sentiments , as well as the ostensible abandonment of crude racism by the Nationalism Today faction , need to be set in a wider argumentative context . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Vargas Llosa 's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy , oscillates between third-person narration and monologue ( interior and spoken ) to bring out the gulf between the boys ' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self , and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings . |
| 26 | The strength of the individual features set in a long thin face gave him a striking and attractive appearance . |
| 27 | Head large , with large eyes facing forwards and set in a flattened facial disc , whose feathers usually conceal the short hooked bill . |
| 28 | Relaxed and tranquil , the Villa Nicolli is set in a quiet residential area , just a short walk from the centre of Riva . |
| 29 | The hotel is set in a quiet back street with its own landing stage and a tiny pavement terrace . |
| 30 | 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 . |