Example sentences of "it [is] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most annuals can be placed straight into the propogator , providing it is set at a temperature within the stated range , but some need to be covered with a polythene bag or sheet of glass . |
| 32 | ( At present , it is set at 0.66 , which reflects the relatively high frequency of function words in normal text . ) |
| 33 | It is set at the junction of four minor lanes , none of which has any indications of antiquity . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool . |
| 37 | It is set in a medieval castle in a historic town in Eastern Europe . |
| 38 | And then there is the international novel , which is particularly easy to translate because it is set in a generalised Nowhere and has no idiosyncratic language to disturb its translators . |
| 39 | Taken from a one-act play by Prosper Merimee , it is set in 18th-century Peru and focuses on a company of travelling players performing in the tradition of the commedia dell'arte . |
| 40 | Again , it is set in the most spectacular countryside and well worth taking your camera to . |
| 41 | It is set in a quiet and sunny spot just 12 minutes walk from the village . |
| 42 | It is set in Peru where the stunt man has been making a movie . |
| 43 | It is set in South Africa but is not primarily political and is not about apartheid ; however , it subtly reflects the racial and social strains in South African society . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | In cases where a verbal ability test is set , it is set in English . |
| 46 | It is set in Bristol and is heavily autobiographical . |
| 47 | It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It is set in Mexico 's magnificent White Sands National Park — and anyway , any movie starring Willem Dafoe is worth looking at ! |
| 51 | It is set in a garden and fields which look south towards a fresh stream and woodland beyond . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | It is set in the middle of a modern housing estate and is a sheer oasis out of the past . |
| 54 | It is set in lovely gardens , making the swimming pool a popular spot to relax once your shopping and sightseeing are complete . |
| 55 | It is set in spacious tropical gardens and offers a good choice of facilities . |
| 56 | The land it is set in a cultivate style , |
| 57 | It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ . |
| 58 | It is set in England in the twenty-first century . |
| 59 | It is set by two main things : the economic circumstances of the day , and the way in which firms are owned . |
| 60 | This duty to disclose is not limited by medical practice , it is set by law . |