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

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1 It 's set in the Ammer valley some 85kms from Munich , surrounded by grass and flower covered foothills that steepen and rear into high mountains .
2 This is called the fill light , and it is set on the other side of the camera to reduce the depth of the shadows and to soften the modelling of the subject .
3 It is set at the junction of four minor lanes , none of which has any indications of antiquity .
4 The novelistic density of Andrien 's film makes the well-meant Canadian picture Bye Bye Blues ( director , Anne Wheeler ) , which touches on somewhat related themes though it is set during the war , seem merely novelettish .
5 However , I can tell you that the title is The Life & Times Of Henry Pratt and it is set during the years 1936 to 1953 .
6 Again , it is set in the most spectacular countryside and well worth taking your camera to .
7 It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him .
8 It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog .
9 It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life .
10 Frighteningly true-to-life , and very funny , it is set in the fashion business and stars Joanna Lumley as a coked-up magazine editor and Jennifer Saunders as a drunken PR woman .
11 It is set in the Whitebrook Valley , just a mile from the Tintern Forest where the peace and quiet is disturbed only by a gently babbling brook and birdsong .
12 It is set in the middle of a modern housing estate and is a sheer oasis out of the past .
13 Omit the baskets on one side for a buffet table if it is set against the wall
14 The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard .
15 It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one .
16 She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground .
17 Canongate had its own Tolbooth , which has survived because it was set into the building line instead of blocking the thoroughfare .
18 It was set in the middle of a corn field , and she turned between the tall stalks of corn and followed the track up to the barn .
19 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 .
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