Example sentences of "set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Set against the sweeping backdrop of adventure on the high seas , TREASURE ISLAND charts a boy 's search for treasure in a time of danger and piracy . |
| 32 | All Falkenhayn could set against the Fifth Army 's disappointment at Verdun was the news that the simultaneous U-boat campaign ( as ordained in his Memorandum to the Kaiser ) had already had outstanding success . |
| 33 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 34 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 35 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 36 | Set in the charged atmosphere of a thirties New York summer , Rocket to the Moon is a tale of romance , stifled sexuality and thwarted ambition … at a time when it was considered next to impossible that a rocket could reach the moon . |
| 37 | Set in the fictitious Sussex small town of Badgers Heath , just outside Gatwick — the probable destination , coincidentally , of huge piles of the book — it is full of the obligatory two-dimensional characters with hilarious names ( Rosie Greenleaf , a buxom and promiscuous merry widow ; Dennis Reason , a bank manager with dark secrets ; Nick Grabbe , a disgraced tabloid journalist , and so on ) . |
| 38 | Set in the early 1980s , and about liberal politicians cleaning up a small town , it will , Beswick hopes , ‘ do for Little Rock what John Major did n't do for Huntingdon ’ . |
| 39 | Set in the late seventeenth century , this story of a three-cornered relationship depends on active events vigorously described but ill supported by very generalised characters . |
| 40 | Set in the late 1950's — at the end of post-war rationing and at the beginning of an era of new affluence — this new production of A TASTE OF HONEY , an off-beat comedy drama , brings to the stage the lives of five people living in the Manchester area . |
| 41 | Set in the first instance at 17.5 million b/d , the ceiling remained at about this level , subject to variations ( sometimes just for a specific quarter ) , for most of the decade . |
| 42 | Set in the Royal Hunting Park , the Queen 's House is one of the great surviving masterpieces of the seventeenth-century architect , Inigo Jones . |
| 43 | Set in the lively end of town , and new for Summer '90 , the attractive Magamar apartments are the place to be if you want to see as much motion as lotion ! |
| 44 | SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring . |
| 45 | He was the last manager with first-hand experience of Chapman 's methods and after he died in 1956 there set in the lean period which lasted until 1970 . |
| 46 | Set in the pretty Lanarkshire town of Biggar the gasworks were the last in Scotland , now preserved for future generations to show how this once thriving industry provided gas for both private homes and street lighting . |
| 47 | Set in the steamy swamps of Bayou La Teche ‘ Scorchers ’ is part comedy , part deadly serious drama , in the story of two curious relationships — one in which a newly married husband ca n't get his young wife into bed and in the other a preacher 's daughter ca n't get her husband out of someone else 's ! |
| 48 | Set in the very heart of Florence the Hotel Ambasciatori offers everything a visitor needs for a serene and pleasant stay in Florence . |
| 49 | Set in the relaxed , easy going Roussillon area , the lively resort of Canet Plage is one of the most appealing resorts on this coast . |
| 50 | Set in the scenic splendour of Flagstaff Gardens , the Welsh Mountain Zoo is one of Britain 's finest Zoos , offering all the facilities needed for a complete day 's family outing . |
| 51 | The Corn is Green is a kind of ‘ thirties Educating Rita , but set in the Welsh coalfields and without the frivolous distractions of student life . |
| 52 | Set in the glossy world of women 's magazines , it centres on Rose Summers a plump , talented , unsophisticated girl who rises to top editor . |
| 53 | Set in the beautiful grounds behind the Hotel Rely , the Rely apartments accommodate up to 5 pers . |
| 54 | Set in the beautiful Cotswold countryside near the village of Broadway , in 1919 Snowshill Manor became the home of Charles Paget Wade and his subsequent eclectic collection of artefacts , including among other things clocks , bicycles , musical instruments and samurai warriors ' armour . |
| 55 | Set alongside the regional impact of other EC policies , notably CAP , the ability of the regional funds to make progress towards correcting spatial disparities was severely restricted . |
| 56 | Set amidst the olive groves , orange trees and a sea of terracotta roofs , it nestles on a plateau high above the sea . |
| 57 | Set on the beautiful promenade — Hotel Palace |
| 58 | Set on the beautiful sandy beach at Negambo , the modern Browns Beach Hotel is notable for its cuisine and entertainment . |
| 59 | Set on the maximum temperature we were able to quickly loosen three stubborn hinge screws . |
| 60 | Set on the main road — 15 minutes walk from the resort centre , local buses stop nearby . |