Example sentences of "it [be] set [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It 's set in the Ammer valley some 85kms from Munich , surrounded by grass and flower covered foothills that steepen and rear into high mountains .
2 This is called the fill light , and it is set on the other side of the camera to reduce the depth of the shadows and to soften the modelling of the subject .
3 It is set at the junction of four minor lanes , none of which has any indications of antiquity .
4 The novelistic density of Andrien 's film makes the well-meant Canadian picture Bye Bye Blues ( director , Anne Wheeler ) , which touches on somewhat related themes though it is set during the war , seem merely novelettish .
5 However , I can tell you that the title is The Life & Times Of Henry Pratt and it is set during the years 1936 to 1953 .
6 Again , it is set in the most spectacular countryside and well worth taking your camera to .
7 It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him .
8 It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog .
9 It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life .
10 Frighteningly true-to-life , and very funny , it is set in the fashion business and stars Joanna Lumley as a coked-up magazine editor and Jennifer Saunders as a drunken PR woman .
11 It is set in the Whitebrook Valley , just a mile from the Tintern Forest where the peace and quiet is disturbed only by a gently babbling brook and birdsong .
12 It is set in the middle of a modern housing estate and is a sheer oasis out of the past .
13 Omit the baskets on one side for a buffet table if it is set against the wall
14 It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one .
15 She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground .
16 Canongate had its own Tolbooth , which has survived because it was set into the building line instead of blocking the thoroughfare .
17 It was set in the middle of a corn field , and she turned between the tall stalks of corn and followed the track up to the barn .
18 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 .
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