Example sentences of "which [be] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 2 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 3 | He knew anyway what John was doing , which was setting the fuse . |
| 4 | Instead , she stood still , looking in surprise at the gentle lined face above her , in which was set a pair of kind eyes of the brightest blue she had ever seen . |
| 5 | Petion caught up with Mortimer just as the Marines reached the wider tunnel , into one side of which was set a pair of doors which Benny 's description indicated led to the dock . |