Example sentences of "a [noun sg] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his later asylums at Gloucester ( 1811 ) and Dundee ( 1812 ) , Stark himself adopted markedly less institutionalized concepts , the former being planned as a crescent set in gardens and the latter as a domestically scaled rural farm . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's just a bit set in his ways . ’ |
| 3 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 4 | The embarrassments of first love and sexuality , and particularly the nature of violence and cruelty , become bearable or ‘ handlable ’ in a story set in the past . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tell a story set in the past and decide where you will stop to let the class take over . |
| 7 | My old dream of a play set in a boxing-ring , he wrote . |
| 8 | And then , by total coincidence , the RSC added a play set in Vienna , and another set in Hamburg ! |
| 9 | She walked across the cobbles and pointed to a plaque set in the wall of the Library . |
| 10 | The official date of the starting is 1387 , as shown on a plaque set in the wall at the south-west corner of the building : El Principio il Domo di Milano fu nel Anno 1386 . |
| 11 | A plaque set in the wall at shin height , painted cream with the lettering picked out in black . |
| 12 | So how does the girl who began hitting on a Swingball set in her back garden , see this move ? |
| 13 | Scott , revealing details of the 500-page bid document for the first time , insisted the big selling point was the proximity of the sports venues to the competitors ' village , which would be in a canalside setting in the heart of the city . |
| 14 | Julie Burchill 's new novel , originally commissioned by the BBC as a screenplay , is a thriller set in Prague . |
| 15 | An unusual brooch incorporating a watercolour portrait of a girl set in gold by William Russell Flint is estimated at £2,000–3,000 ( $3,900–5,800 ) . |
| 16 | The issue received no profound discussion at the Tenth Session of the Conference , but the Rapporteur felt able to declare , in a passage set in capital letters , that the ‘ authentic interpretation of the Commission ’ favoured its obligatory application . |
| 17 | The most dramatic direct action was taken at Luxulyan , a village set in a beautiful farming area with a local population mix of traditional farmers , well-heeled professionals and not so well-heeled smallholders . |
| 18 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 19 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 20 | The prisoner , a woman who had refused to confess her adultery to the Inquisitor , was brought out in chains and bound to a post set in the ground . |
| 21 | The main focus of their sponsorship is totally to re-equip the department 's studio with state-of-the-art electronic flash and tungsten lighting equipment ; in exchange , KJP have a distribution site on campus , serving the Lothians , and a showpiece setting in a real studio situation . |
| 22 | The sound will then be re-recorded in binaural stereo using a dummy human head with a microphone set in each ear . |
| 23 | ALTHOUGH few summits ever produce clear-cut decisions , the main outcome of Strasbourg could be the reshaping of the European economy in the 1990s , with a process set in train which aims to create a third homogeneous bloc to challenge the United States and Japan by the end of the century . |
| 24 | Epigenesis is indeed a process set in time . |
| 25 | It looked like a mock-up set in a middle-class soap opera , shining with domestic trivia , very clean . |
| 26 | Below my blindfold I could see tiles and a toilet set in them . |
| 27 | The pool forms a real focal point from both the house and patio , while the sound of water , falling from a mask set in the wall , will be delightful on a hot summer 's day . |
| 28 | She found herself facing a glass-panelled door , with the luminous dot of a bell set in its frame . |
| 29 | The sea served Armstrong as a background to adventures with a more mature approach to character and circumstance , in books like Island Odyssey , a tale set in Crete in 1941 , The Mutineers , in which a setting resembling Easter Island backs up a narrative strongly resembling Lord of the Flies , and The Albatross , a striking version of Chaucer 's Pardoner 's Tale which I shall return to . |
| 30 | Xorandor is a tale set in the near future of two twelve-year-old fraternal twins called Jip and Zab who find a talking stone at an old carn in their native Cornwall . |