Example sentences of "set in the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 5 | Set in the Royal Hunting Park , the Queen 's House is one of the great surviving masterpieces of the seventeenth-century architect , Inigo Jones . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Set in the very heart of Florence the Hotel Ambasciatori offers everything a visitor needs for a serene and pleasant stay in Florence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Set in the glossy world of women 's magazines , it centres on Rose Summers a plump , talented , unsophisticated girl who rises to top editor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's that ? ’ asked Fairham , pointing at a rusted grille set in the concrete close by the wall of the hospital wing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | A new world record has been set in the Central South region . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The sooner I can get the air-conditioning on , the better , ’ he said , taking off his own jacket before going over to inspect the rather antiquated unit , set in the lower frame of one of the windows . |
| 20 | They are comic crime and its cousin , farce crime ; romantic suspense ; historical crime and its near relation , crime set in the immediate past ; and finally , the crime short story . |
| 21 | If rate switches are in use , they should be set in the low position on the cyclic controls , since difficulties are usually pilot-induced ( unintentionally ) and it helps to make the model as docile as possible . |
| 22 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 23 | There was a small wicket set in the great west door . |
| 24 | A wooden doll was made or found to contain her bones ; and round it gold plates and gold wire were set in the ninth century . |
| 25 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 26 | But the scene was set in the political climate of the Weimar Republic for political and functional devolution , a system of checks and balances between individual , sectional , and national interests . |
| 27 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 28 | With our feet firmly on the ground and our sights set in the right direction . |
| 29 | The famous Benedictine abbey of Einsiedeln Switzerland 's greatest place of pilgrimage , set in the pre-Alp country of canton Schwyz can not be described as " off the beaten track " but it would be unthinkable to omit the possibility of visiting it when in this neighbourhood . |
| 30 | This little study , when set in the appropriate context , was turned into a short piece for a local history magazine . |