Example sentences of "be set in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A new world record has been set in the Central South region .
3 The first visible sign of his drive for progress has already been set in the nuclear field .
4 The key elements of the political approach identified earlier in the chapter , those of incremental budgetary approaches , micropolitical factors and satisficing behaviour of groups , can be set in the following framework to provide factors that can be used as indicators of the existence of political decision-making processes :
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 This commodity is always in short supply and it is hard fought for , especially after a general election when an order of priority has to be set in the legislative programme for fulfilling manifesto and other pledges .
8 It is true that phenol-formaldehyde resins can be set in the cold but this requires large additions of a chemical catalyst , or hardening agent .
9 They may be set in the everyday life of 2000 years ago and , therefore , seem somewhat remote from modern times but the meaning of them is still true .
10 The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water .
11 The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses .
12 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 .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be .
15 This important wharf , originally lined with warehouses only recently demolished , is set in the very heart of the city amid colleges and shops .
16 This hotel is set in the beautiful bay of Marina di Campo , about five minutes walk from the resort centre , and the same distance from the fine beaches .
17 This glorious late medieval home is set in the beautiful Usk valley , midway between Abergavenny and Brecon .
18 The buildings date to the early 13th century , and the abbey is set in the beautiful Llandeilo hills .
19 It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog .
20 The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 The Eriksons ( 1852 ) , for instance , described Norwegian life in great detail ; ‘ Our Uncle 's Story ’ ( Our Uncle the Traveller 's Stories , 1859 ) was set in the Black Forest , two others in the Lincolnshire fens and in South Africa respectively .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Turning to the criticisms of the administrative machine through which the political leadership operates , the pattern was set in the early 1960s by Professor Brian Chapman 's British Government Observed .
27 The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 .
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