Example sentences of "set in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Set in the Royal Hunting Park , the Queen 's House is one of the great surviving masterpieces of the seventeenth-century architect , Inigo Jones . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Set in the very heart of Florence the Hotel Ambasciatori offers everything a visitor needs for a serene and pleasant stay in Florence . |
| 14 | Set in the relaxed , easy going Roussillon area , the lively resort of Canet Plage is one of the most appealing resorts on this coast . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Set in the glossy world of women 's magazines , it centres on Rose Summers a plump , talented , unsophisticated girl who rises to top editor . |
| 18 | Set in the beautiful grounds behind the Hotel Rely , the Rely apartments accommodate up to 5 pers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Legend has it that Rhodes , largest of the Dodecanese islands set in the blue Aegean Sea , was home to the sun god Helios … and little wonder given this island 's mild climate and long sun-drenched summer days . |
| 21 | It is a familiar theme in Latin American fiction , and something of the flavour of this part of Panama can be gleaned from Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years Of Solitude , set in the forgotten swamps of Colombia ( of which Panama once formed part ) . |
| 22 | CHESTERS ROMAN FORT AND MUSEUM Set in the ancient wooded valleys of Northumberland overlooking the River North Tyne , Chesters is one of the best preserved buildings on Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 23 | He had roved the district in search of cinematic distraction , of some foolish , enjoyable , Hollywood farrago , preferably set in the ancient world , with all-Americans dressed in togas , and luscious drug-store dames in tailored slave-rags . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's that ? ’ asked Fairham , pointing at a rusted grille set in the concrete close by the wall of the hospital wing . |
| 25 | Imagining his Sara ‘ all oppressed with gloom ’ , Coleridge 's spontaneous reply was a poem set in the descriptive frame of an evening visit to Shurton Bars , the coastal area lying beyond a rich tract of open fields to the north of Shurton Court . |
| 26 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 27 | The lotus design , however is nearly identical to the flower which is set in the central square of a geometrical device in the St. Nicholas Street pavement ( pI . |
| 28 | A new world record has been set in the Central South region . |
| 29 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 30 | One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s . |