Example sentences of "[noun sg] set in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 2 | The party may have put on a collar and tie but it is still the Labour Party , prone to its old reflexes ( as it reminded us yesterday on defence spending ) , prisoner still of its anachronistic structure , its mind set in 100 years of working-class history . |
| 3 | And here is the author of Communion , with a serial killer thriller set in ecclesiastical circles . |
| 4 | The sound will then be re-recorded in binaural stereo using a dummy human head with a microphone set in each ear . |
| 5 | In fact the rot set in 15 years ago when Dr Coggan asked for a meeting with Jim Callaghan to lobby for the Church to be exempted from a two per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 6 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 7 | There are many stately homes , including Adlington Hall , a stunning Elizabethan manor with an elegant Georgian portico ; Arley Hall and Gardens , a Victorian residence set in twelve acres of gardens ; and Bramwell Hall , a 15th-century black and white manor house . |
| 8 | No sheet of Olympic-proportion aqua-blue but a curving arc of pale green water set in natural stone with palm-frond umbrellas shading rustic wooden tables round the edge . |
| 9 | Bustles and antimacassars are fine , but most readers will add those from their own imaginations to any story set in Victorian times . |
| 10 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 11 | Simply beautiful and completely enchanting story set in Long Island in 1959 . |
| 12 | This is a magical-mythical story set in pre-colonial Mali . |
| 13 | By the end of the day , the stark nuclear presence set in bold defiance on the Bristol Channel had been suitably upstaged . |
| 14 | The real Lily sat opposite , her too brightly-coloured hair set in stiff waves about her faded face . |
| 15 | Norland College , a Georgian building set in 150-acre Denford Park near Hungerford , Berkshire , prides itself on a reputation for excellence . |
| 16 | A tastefully extended and refurbished Victorian building set in own grounds with views over open countryside and yet within easy driving distance of Birmingham and the NEC . |
| 17 | Billing Aquadrome is an established leisure park set in 270 acres of parkland , woods and lakes . |
| 18 | This scary abode set in Gloomy Wood is the size of a football stadium and combines Ghostbusters style humour with spine chilling rooms . |
| 19 | In all the antics to which our honourable member would resort to secure the publicity and the popularity needed under the STV to get himself re-elected he would be contributing to the personalization and the trivialization of politics of which the eighties saw the deplorable example set in high places . |
| 20 | In Gulliver 's Travels ( Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ) , 2 vols. , 1726–27 , the true first edition has a frontispiece oval portrait with an inscription set in two lines beneath the oval , not round it . |
| 21 | Eavesdrop after a smugglers run to hear stirring tales of Saltburn 's ‘ freetrading ’ days in this exciting , new heritage centre set in authentic fishermen 's cottages alongside the famous Ship Inn . |
| 22 | You 've heard about this symbol of the brotherhood of man set in welcoming Perugia with its ancient traditions of hospitality , where every year bright-eyed , bushy-tailed youngsters come from the four corners of the world to study Italian culture and promote peace and international understanding . ’ |
| 23 | Elsbeth Lindner , rebuilding Weidenfeld 's fiction list , has bought a first novel set in Civil War England and Puritan America which she hesitates , she says , to bill as ‘ a prequel to The Scarlet Letter ’ because it is ‘ very much a novel in its own right ’ . |
| 24 | The second was a paperback , a romance set in Ancient Greece . |
| 25 | Swimming : Lauterbrunnen has a lovely outdoor swimming pool set in alpine meadows . |
| 26 | These include a pool set in sunny terraces , a chic cocktail bar and a lounge , several beachside snack-bars and an elegant restaurant where a buffet-style candlelit dinner can be enjoyed outside to the accompaniment of light music . |
| 27 | Facilities include a swimming pool set in attractive gardens at the rear of the hotel , children 's paddling pool , sun terraces , tennis court , squash court , sauna and Gym ( local charge ) , and a shop . |
| 28 | Where else will you find a thousand swans , geese and ducks , a superb collection of Veteran , Edwardian and Vintage cars and motorcycles plus art and antique collections in a Country House with its formal garden set in beautiful countryside . |
| 29 | By contrast , the relative complexity of tasks involving the same mathematics set in different contexts or tasks involving a number of different mathematical ideas is not so easily established . |
| 30 | Ostensibly it is a tale of the supernatural ; of religious hysteria and demonic possession set in 16th-century Germany at the time of the Inquisition . |