Example sentences of "set in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 2 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 3 | Set in the charged atmosphere of a thirties New York summer , Rocket to the Moon is a tale of romance , stifled sexuality and thwarted ambition … at a time when it was considered next to impossible that a rocket could reach the moon . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Set in the first instance at 17.5 million b/d , the ceiling remained at about this level , subject to variations ( sometimes just for a specific quarter ) , for most of the decade . |
| 6 | Set in the Royal Hunting Park , the Queen 's House is one of the great surviving masterpieces of the seventeenth-century architect , Inigo Jones . |
| 7 | Set in the lively end of town , and new for Summer '90 , the attractive Magamar apartments are the place to be if you want to see as much motion as lotion ! |
| 8 | He was the last manager with first-hand experience of Chapman 's methods and after he died in 1956 there set in the lean period which lasted until 1970 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Set in the steamy swamps of Bayou La Teche ‘ Scorchers ’ is part comedy , part deadly serious drama , in the story of two curious relationships — one in which a newly married husband ca n't get his young wife into bed and in the other a preacher 's daughter ca n't get her husband out of someone else 's ! |
| 11 | Set in the very heart of Florence the Hotel Ambasciatori offers everything a visitor needs for a serene and pleasant stay in Florence . |
| 12 | Set in the scenic splendour of Flagstaff Gardens , the Welsh Mountain Zoo is one of Britain 's finest Zoos , offering all the facilities needed for a complete day 's family outing . |
| 13 | The Corn is Green is a kind of ‘ thirties Educating Rita , but set in the Welsh coalfields and without the frivolous distractions of student life . |
| 14 | Set in the glossy world of women 's magazines , it centres on Rose Summers a plump , talented , unsophisticated girl who rises to top editor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Set in the beautiful grounds behind the Hotel Rely , the Rely apartments accommodate up to 5 pers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | He had roved the district in search of cinematic distraction , of some foolish , enjoyable , Hollywood farrago , preferably set in the ancient world , with all-Americans dressed in togas , and luscious drug-store dames in tailored slave-rags . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's that ? ’ asked Fairham , pointing at a rusted grille set in the concrete close by the wall of the hospital wing . |
| 21 | Imagining his Sara ‘ all oppressed with gloom ’ , Coleridge 's spontaneous reply was a poem set in the descriptive frame of an evening visit to Shurton Bars , the coastal area lying beyond a rich tract of open fields to the north of Shurton Court . |
| 22 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is set in the first decade of the twentieth century , in rural Georgia and most of the characters are black Americans as are those in ‘ The Friends ’ which is set in the seventies , in Harlem , New York . |
| 23 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 24 | A new world record has been set in the Central South region . |
| 25 | The lotus design , however is nearly identical to the flower which is set in the central square of a geometrical device in the St. Nicholas Street pavement ( pI . |
| 26 | The organization of competitive pupil participation thus avoids excesses of boredom and inattention especially where false questioning trails can be set in the early stages and the ‘ answer ’ or ‘ point ’ of the lesson delayed so that pupils have to work hard to discover it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet . |
| 29 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 30 | ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is set in the Deep South of Alabama , where the majority of white men will not accept Negroes into a white society and it 's not only that the Negroes do not live amongst the whites , in some cases they are treated as if they are nobody . |