Example sentences of "set back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set back from the road it faces the south wall of the magnificent St Magnus Cathedral , and is separated from it by the road , and by a peaceful park area and an avenue of trees . |
| 2 | Set back from the road by a long drive and framed by a crescent of trees , Mains Hall is both an imposing and yet secluded 16th-century manor house with a romantic past — it was here that George IV courted his wife to be , Marie Fitzherbert . |
| 3 | Set back from the road the hotel is reached through picturesque roads of characteristic pastel colour buildings . |
| 4 | There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens . |
| 5 | Three sets of lights later , they came into the town centre , a wide boulevard that sloped up a hill with the shops and offices set back from the pavement . |
| 6 | set back in the inside ? |
| 7 | All the attributes can be set back to the system default ( off ) with the command ; It is possible to change the " hardware " attributes ( flash , grey , reverse and underline ) of text already printed on the screen . |
| 8 | Tiled surrounds built in the 1930s are set back against the brickwork , and the plaster made good around them . |
| 9 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 10 | Does the Prime Minister recall that the cause of reconciliation in Northern Ireland was tragically set back in the aftermath of the 1974 election ? |
| 11 | I guessed that it was set back in the farmhouse , unless he had some sort of remote control toy . |
| 12 | Mark and Babur 's house is a row set back from the Archway Road , just before suicide bridge . |
| 13 | It is set back from the road with a sweeping drive and an ornamental fish-pond in front , now stagnant . |
| 14 | The studios are set back from the road and are shaded by the olive trees from which they derive their name . |
| 15 | The Tripodoro is set back from the road about 750 yards from the centre of quiet , easy-going Sportorno . |
| 16 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 17 | The property is set back from the road behind a neat foregarden with tarmacadam driveway providing car parking on site and leading to the front entrance . |
| 18 | The property is set back from the road behind a stoned wall and a lawned garden with driveway leading to the front entrance . |
| 19 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 20 | This is the weird machine with the keyboard set back from the front to give you a place to rest your hands . |
| 21 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 22 | The last operating day again just after 15.00 and 61094 has arrived from Leicester and is about to take water before setting back into the north bay . |
| 23 | The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town . |
| 24 | Vic 's house , at the end of the village , was detached and set back from the road behind a neat lawn . |
| 25 | The pension is situated about 10 minutes walk from the village , set back from the road . |
| 26 | It was about a mile from the village , set back from the road , with tall iron gates , securely locked , at the entrance , and a few yards inside them a lodge . |
| 27 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 28 | I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road . |
| 29 | It had small , dark windows in a main building set back from the road behind a staff block and a perimeter wall of newer red brick . |
| 30 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |