Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.

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1 A wooden doll was made or found to contain her bones ; and round it gold plates and gold wire were set in the ninth century .
2 You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century .
3 It sounded like an interesting job — the play was a futuristic drama set in the twenty-first century , and the director said she 'd have a chance to really let her imagination run riot on the styles .
4 ‘ You know the play 's set in the twenty-first century , ’ Josh explained .
5 It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person .
6 These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors .
7 Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens .
8 John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century .
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