Example sentences of "set back [prep] the road " in BNC.

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1 Set back from the road it faces the south wall of the magnificent St Magnus Cathedral , and is separated from it by the road , and by a peaceful park area and an avenue of trees .
2 Set back from the road by a long drive and framed by a crescent of trees , Mains Hall is both an imposing and yet secluded 16th-century manor house with a romantic past — it was here that George IV courted his wife to be , Marie Fitzherbert .
3 Set back from the road the hotel is reached through picturesque roads of characteristic pastel colour buildings .
4 There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens .
5 It is set back from the road with a sweeping drive and an ornamental fish-pond in front , now stagnant .
6 The studios are set back from the road and are shaded by the olive trees from which they derive their name .
7 The Tripodoro is set back from the road about 750 yards from the centre of quiet , easy-going Sportorno .
8 Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look .
9 The property is set back from the road behind a neat foregarden with tarmacadam driveway providing car parking on site and leading to the front entrance .
10 The property is set back from the road behind a stoned wall and a lawned garden with driveway leading to the front entrance .
11 The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town .
12 Vic 's house , at the end of the village , was detached and set back from the road behind a neat lawn .
13 The pension is situated about 10 minutes walk from the village , set back from the road .
14 It was about a mile from the village , set back from the road , with tall iron gates , securely locked , at the entrance , and a few yards inside them a lodge .
15 Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain .
16 I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road .
17 It had small , dark windows in a main building set back from the road behind a staff block and a perimeter wall of newer red brick .
18 Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road .
19 Far ahead of her , Sabine could see a cluster of buildings , obviously a farm , but on her left , set back from the road across an expanse of roughly cropped grass and stones , was a smaller property , whitewashed walls , and earth-red tiles , standing alone .
20 The Mercedes slid to a halt outside a fair-sized , 1930s detached house set back from the road by a small garden which had thoughtfully been concreted over .
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