Example sentences of "was set in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was set in a cabin on the boat with two men lone Fernandell and a beautiful Tahitian girl wearing only a grass skirt . |
| 2 | It was set in a trim garden girdled by white painted paling ; if not God 's cottage , certainly not his manor . |
| 3 | Their piety was set in a classical mould , a matter of obligations duly performed . |
| 4 | In early mosques , the focal point for prayer was a sacred stone ( the qibla ) , which was set in a wall facing Mecca ; it later became customary to enclose this stone within an arch-shaped niche known as a mihrab , or prayer niche . |
| 5 | Her mouth was set in a stubborn line , and she was scowling . |
| 6 | The brief dew on his lashes , that had caught the thin early rays of the risen sun , was dry enough now , his mouth was set in a rigid line . |
| 7 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 8 | A pot of ch'ban , a beverage which Alexei thought was quite similar to earth stock coffee , bubbled quietly on a burner which was set in a shallow bowl of sand on the table at her side . |
| 9 | His long face was set in a lugubrious expression , and he had a slight squint owing to the length of his nose , which , to Cleo 's eyes , was a veritable proboscis . |
| 10 | The second ad was set in a courtroom and described our new product ‘ Balanced Banking ’ and had the message that , with our automatic transfer , customers ‘ money was always in the right place to earn more interest . |
| 11 | One petal held a beautiful , almost translucent pear-shaped dewdrop and it was set in a crystal vase that looked as substantial as a spider 's web . |
| 12 | The lines from his nose to his mouth were deeper , his mouth was set in a grim line and his eyes were bleak , or perhaps her memory was at fault … but she knew it was n't ; she knew every inch of his face . |
| 13 | He looked to be about ten , his hair was as red as Gwen 's , and his face was set in a horrible scowl . |
| 14 | The fourth task was to get across a piece of rope which had been tied around three trees which was set in a triangle . |
| 15 | This Fifties comedy was set in a ‘ flea pit ’ cinema called the Bijou where staff turned up the central heating to boiling point in a desert picture to boost ice cream sales . |
| 16 | By then , the game was set in an exciting crescendo , Palace interrupting the openings contrived down the right by Mike Newell and Pat Nevin with breaks aimed at Wright 's speed and control . |
| 17 | Last night 's mystery was set in an open prison so relaxed that you wondered if the female governor went round tucking up the inmates at night . |
| 18 | Samaraweera cites Leonard Woolf 's novel The Village in the Jungle to support his characterization of the average litigant as ignorant of court procedure , but Woolf 's novel was set in an impoverished , dying and atypical village in the dry zone . |
| 19 | All of this magical garden was set in an acre of tough , fibrous grass on which a boy with a curved knife squatted on his haunches while cropping the ‘ lawns ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Catherine ’ was set in an architectural representation of the Hermitage , complete with imitation window and door frames , cornices and mouldings , matching paint colours , and a twenty foot long photo-mural of the exterior of the Hermitage that greeted visitors at the entrance . |
| 21 | The whole endeavour was set in an international context , the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad . |
| 22 | The mask was set in an expression of abject sadness . |
| 23 | The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars . |