Sentence examples for improbable setting from inspiring English sources

An old orphanage may seem an improbable setting for a modern art collection, but that is where Scotland's newest national gallery has found a home.

In the improbable setting of Traeger Park, Alice Springs, the latest contenders strutted their stuff on the first day of a two-day game.

It was a time when this remote and now largely desolate building was the improbable setting for one of the greatest powerhouses in the history of publishing.

Surpassed only by Silvio Berlusconi's choice of earthquake-stricken L'Aquila in 2009, Lough Erne must be the second-most improbable setting in the 38-year sequence of these events.

In this improbable setting, behind the three-storey brick facade of an ordinary house, is one of the great lost works of the architectural arts, and the last project of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's life.

— These wind-swept West Texas plains offer an improbable setting for one of the college football season's most important games, as No. 6 Texas Tech hosts No. 1 Texas here on Saturday.

"Expression-decreasing mutations yielding rate-limiting abundance changes in proteins that require chaperoning for maturation or remodeling" seems a much more restrictive (read: improbable) set than "destabilizing mutations in coding sequences".

Whipping up an improbable set point, Chanda Rubin moved Venus Williams around the court with the assertiveness of a stage director, cracking ground strokes as hard as countertops into each corner, testing the elasticity of her opponent's vast reach.

What this means is that we dart from one improbable set piece to the next: a performance of "Turandot" attended by a surplus of assassins; the cracking of an underwater security system, breachable only by a free diver with capacious lungs; and a motorbike chase that gives Cruise, leaning sideways at speed, the chance to buff his kneecaps on the curving road.

Yeovil now require an improbable set of results and a considerable swing in goal difference to extend their one-year stay in the second tier, the highest level they have ever played at.

Editor's note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through the most improbable set of circumstances to take an idea from a germ to a real and profitable business.