Example sentences of "set [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set mostly in America , it follows the plight of a poor Irish girl who marries into New York society and inherits a host of hostile relations . |
| 2 | In a nutshell , ‘ Christian doctrines are accounts of the Christian religious affections set forth in speech ’ . |
| 3 | This declares that the Protocol applies only to those procedural acts set forth in Article 2(a) of the Convention . |
| 4 | Set simultaneously in Belfast 1991 and Belfast 1871 , ‘ Pygmies in the Ruins ’ confronts the nature of Ireland 's near pygmy enthralment with its own past , through the experience of Harry Washburn , a police ‘ scene-of-the-crime ’ photographer . |
| 5 | Authorises member states co-operating with the government of Kuwait , unless Iraq on or before Jan. 15 , 1990 , fully implements , as set forth in paragraph 1 above , the foregoing resolutions , to use all necessary means to uphold and implement Security Council Resolution 660 and all subsequent relevant resolutions and to restore international peace and security in the area ; |
| 6 | The response from the State Department came in a message dated the following day , 15 May [ KP 125 ] : " We believe that no distinction should be made between Chetniks and other dissident Yugoslav troops and that our position with respect to anti-partisan or dissident Yugoslav troops in general , in agreement with that of the British Foreign Office and in accordance with Macmillan 's recommendation , is clearly set forth in PEP TEL 424 , May 2 . |
| 7 | I am glad we have converted the European Community to this , but I am not going to have land set aside in Britain so that the rest of Europe can produce more . |
| 8 | But company spokeswoman Caroline Knight said the transfer , planned since 1991 and approved by pension fund trustees , was carried out early this year , two months before an extra £20m was set aside in April to sort out problems caused by the promotion . |
| 9 | There 's a very interesting table which is now produced by the D of E , not by Labour Weekly or anybody else , which lays out the amounts of money that are set aside in order for the collection . |
| 10 | A lot of that has been set aside in substance and certainly in the attitudes and language which come from the government . |
| 11 | In 1822 he won the competition for rebuilding London Bridge but the result was set aside in favour of the design by John Rennie [ q.v. ] ; and the principal feature of his career , for which he gained notice on the Continent as well as in England , was to be his speciality as a designer of large covered market buildings . |
| 12 | Are there any matters where auditors ' opinion is agreed to be set aside in favour of valuation agreed between the parties ? |
| 13 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |
| 14 | Tom leaned forward , ignoring the piping hot servings of lobster meunière which had just been set reverently in front of them . |
| 15 | Effective though it proved , the device of holding down output in the hope of driving up prices brought with it problems not to be found in any economics textbook : the global output ceiling , if set realistically in relation to demand , can easily prove too small to be divided amicably . |
| 16 | ‘ The first and the last of Mr Dickens 's works were aptly set here in Rochester , ’ she informed the party , all of whom then turned to her under the impression she was leading the party , earning another glare from Samuel . |
| 17 | Though set vaguely in period it is surprising just how contemporary it all seems . |
| 18 | Working in this way , setting up a whole group which functions as a community , frequently leads drama teachers towards work which is set either in villages or small towns or on islands . |
| 19 | We then turn to a model where the motives for capital accumulation are set explicitly in terms of the life-cycle savings theory treated in Lecture 3 , and compare it with alternative approaches ( Section 8–4 ) . |
| 20 | Installation is simple , as the units merely need setting securely in position and the delivery hose from the pump inserted into the uppermost one before being fully operational . |
| 21 | It has dedicated its Canadian historical collection to one of the art world 's more radical attempts to engage the spectator : one room mimics a nineteenth-century salon , with scores of paintings crammed one above the other to the advantage of none ; another gallery , devoted to the famed Group of Seven , contains a pew-like bench set directly in front of Tom Thomson 's ‘ West Wind ’ ( a national icon ) and two landscapes by Lauren Harris , rigged with telephones providing a soundtrack on the artists . |
| 22 | This he could do by granting a Discharge in the form set forth in Schedule B to the Act or in a similar form . |
| 23 | Joseph ( brother of Sinead ) O'Connor has moved hardback houses from Sinclair-Stevenson to HarperCollins with his new novel Desperadoes , set partly in Ireland and partly in Latin America . |
| 24 | The new book , Kolymsky Heights , is says Sinclair-Stevenson , ‘ a wonderful , classy novel set mainly in Russia post-Gorbachev — the best thing in this genre I 've read for ages ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I cleared out with four laps to go , ’ said Murray , whose time was almost identical to that she set outdoors in Belfast last August , the last time she ran the distance . |
| 26 | But good bloodily triumphs at the end of a film made by James Marcus rather like a Warner Brothers gangster picture set incongruously in Soho and gone rather badly off-key . |