Example sentences of "of [noun pl] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some showed neatly dressed Annamese families smiling from the doorways of houses set in small gardens beside groves of rubber trees . |
| 2 | These spaces are normally ventilated by means of airbricks set in outside walls below the level of the damp course , but these can easily become blocked , cutting off the air flow beneath the floor and allowing rot to develop . |
| 3 | And IBM has a further round of announcements set for next Tuesday 16th which will see the AS/400 move into the open systems frame with new Posix functionality and possibly a future game-plan that would see it share Rios 2 — or beyond — chip architectures with the RS/6000 . |
| 4 | It was small , with a sloping ceiling and a pair of windows set in deep embrasures . |
| 5 | His search , mocked at every turn by events and other characters , sets up a tenuous connecting thread which links a whole series of episodes set in different places and periods . |
| 6 | They usually comprise a circle of stake-holes set into shallow trenches with stouter posts located at the doorways , suggesting a wickerwork construction with mud or clay daub walls and a thatched roof . |
| 7 | It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again . |