Example sentences of "of [noun] set in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 2 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
| 3 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 4 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 5 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 6 | When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof . |
| 7 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 8 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |