to set in
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3.4
- phrasal verb
- /sɛt ɪn/
:
estar ambientado en
- So Race is a play that is set in a law office.
- a novel set in
- a story set in
- a film set in
And it's, you know, set in the a far back time.
- And it's, you know, set in the a far back time.
- Take that story, that basic idea set in college now.
- I was auditioning for a crime drama set in New York.
- Yeah, it's a weird one that's set in New York.
- I just come back from Malta filming a crime thriller set in Malta, right.
- And some of those creatures would be set in a world like the past of that world.
- So we're the one that's set in the bar.
- It has to be very clear what what character is saying what it's set in Miami.
Examples
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For example, both our case studies were set in large, urban areas with many students affected by poverty.
Academic text (2011) -
It's Romeo and Juliet, but with singing and dancing, and it's set in New York, not Stratford-upon-Avon.
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And we did a play that was set in Ireland.
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It's set in New York.
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It's a western set in Texas in America.
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Neil has already said it's going to be set in modern day.
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Never seen a whole movie set in a convenience store before.
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I remember I was doing Roughnecks, right, which was set in the North Sea.
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Mary Rosenblum is currently working on a mystery series set in Hood River, Oregon.
Fiction book (1998) -
The movie is set in a bustling city during the 1920s.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The locative sense ('to be placed in' or 'to take place in') follows from combining 'set' (place/position) with the preposition 'in', so learners who know the constituents can often infer the general idea. However, the conventional narrative use (often passive: 'is set in') and the extension to temporal or contextual settings make the exact usage slightly non-obvious without prior exposure, so it is not fully transparently predictable.
Etymology
Set in comes from the image of placing a scene inside a time or place. Writers set a story in a city or year — they put the action inside that place, so set in means 'to take place in' or 'to be located in'.