Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 2 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 3 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 4 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 5 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 6 | We put our litter back into our rucksacks as all the bins were full to overflowing , and Elinor and Otley set off in the direction of Fair Hill where all the caravans were resting . |
| 7 | When , after some twenty minutes , the Inspector had failed to arrive , Golby set off in the direction from which he anticipated Drewitt would appear , after his meet with PC Shorter at the turnpike at Folly Crossroads . |
| 8 | The Doctor pointed along the corridor , and set off in the direction indicated . |
| 9 | She walked briskly out of the station , and set off in the direction of Bayswater , stopping every hundred yards or so to put down her dark blue Revelation suitcase ( a Christmas present from her parents ) and change hands . |
| 10 | Dressed as cowboys , they climbed aboard their trusty steeds ( 's Datsun ! ) and set off in the direction of the County Hall in Exeter where they ambushed the staff and persuaded them to hand over their readies . |
| 11 | As she got out , she spotted a sign to the library , and set off in the direction in which it pointed . |
| 12 | Schott decided to make a break for the main rendezvous point with Stirling , and set off in the 3-tonner with his men . |
| 13 | They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach . |
| 14 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 15 | Tess and Abraham dressed , led out the old horse Prince with the loaded waggon , and set off in the dark . |
| 16 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 17 | In the past six months , 65,000 people have joined the Reform of Heisei , a pressure group set up in the wake of the Sagawa Kyubin scandal by Kenichi Ohmae , the Tokyo head of the management consultancy , McKinsey . |
| 18 | For example , if you use what was the dining room for a work room/study as well , you should either have a round table which can be piled with books when necessary , a table set off-centre , or a drop-leaf table that can be pulled out and set up in the centre of the room as required . |
| 19 | Statues were either images of deities , especially the cult-statue within a temple ; or dedications , that is gifts to the gods , set up in the temple or more often outside it in the temenos ; or they stood on graves . |
| 20 | His daughter Agnes , married to Robert Huberd , citizen and mason of London , carried on her father 's business as a monumental mason and in 1358–9 was paid £106 18s. 11d. for the alabaster tomb of Queen Isabella , widow of Edward II , set up in the church of the London Greyfriars . |
| 21 | The only other furniture was an enormous wooden tapestry frame with a small chair in front of it , set up in the recess of the tiny bay window at the far end of the room . |
| 22 | The settlement connects with other forms of extension in that it did have an educational aim , but , like Oxford House ( another settlement or " mission " set up in the East End in 1884 ) , it usefully illustrates new initiatives for the renewal of forms of leadership and patterns for social administration upon which the elevation of English largely depended , Barnett saw Toynbee Hall as the potential centre for an east London university ; in fact it became , as did the other settlements and extension classes , a centre for members of the middle class . |
| 23 | More than 100 jobs have also been found through a community employment and enterprise centre set up in the shopping centre and through a residents-run job club . |
| 24 | There 's this big brass band set up in the middle of the station with these people sitting in chairs with their instruments all silvery and shiny . |
| 25 | LIFESPAN identifies its offline media by a character string set up in the configuration file . |
| 26 | Its audience was familiar with the statue which Charlemagne had brought from Italy and set up in the courtyard at Aachen . |
| 27 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 28 | The Assets Verification Committee , set up in the aftermath of the February coup to examine allegations of high-level corruption , on Nov. 26 ordered the seizure of the assets of former Prime Minister Gen. Chatichai Choonhaven and his close aide Pitak Intrawitanunt . |
| 29 | The original , although it is hard to believe from the fragile beauty of the copy , represented a boy boxer , Cyniscus of Mantineia , whose feats were commemorated in a bronze statue set up in the sanctuary at Olympia . |
| 30 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |