Example sentences of "was set in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the scene was set in the political climate of the Weimar Republic for political and functional devolution , a system of checks and balances between individual , sectional , and national interests . |
| 3 | The Eriksons ( 1852 ) , for instance , described Norwegian life in great detail ; ‘ Our Uncle 's Story ’ ( Our Uncle the Traveller 's Stories , 1859 ) was set in the Black Forest , two others in the Lincolnshire fens and in South Africa respectively . |
| 4 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 5 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |
| 6 | Turning to the criticisms of the administrative machine through which the political leadership operates , the pattern was set in the early 1960s by Professor Brian Chapman 's British Government Observed . |
| 7 | Both ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ and ‘ The disappearance ’ are written by American woman authors in the 1900's , but ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ was set in the 1930's while ‘ The disappearance ’ was set in the 1970 's and I think this is the cause for the difference of the acceptance of the black race into a multi-racial community . |
| 8 | Both ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ and ‘ The disappearance ’ are written by American woman authors in the 1900's , but ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ was set in the 1930's while ‘ The disappearance ’ was set in the 1970 's and I think this is the cause for the difference of the acceptance of the black race into a multi-racial community . |
| 9 | The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 . |
| 10 | The 28-week limit was set in the 1967 Abortion Act , and since then many premature babies born before 28 weeks have survived . |
| 11 | In fact , the film was set in the 1950s , but it is doubtful whether any but a few of the millions who watched the film appreciated that life in a mental hospital is any different today . |
| 12 | Or was it because the show was set in the 1950s , the sun always shone , the table always groaned under Ma Larkin 's home-made goodies , and nothing nasty ever happened ? |