Example sentences of "of [noun sg] set in the " in BNC.

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1 A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium
2 Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof .
3 When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof .
4 There 's loads of TV sets in the window and I du n no which one to look at .
5 there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) .
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