Example sentences of "[was/were] set on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two passenger cars were set on fire outside the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 2 | Yet for all that , the charge eagerly made against us was that the Government were set on abolishing the National Health Service and ‘ privatizing ’ health care . |
| 3 | Destination boxes were set on high stanchions above the ends of the upper deck and had glazed openings in the back , so no deck lights were required . |
| 4 | Children who were identified with a dangerous or destructive person in the parent 's life and so few limits were set on their behaviour . |
| 5 | You were set on a different road : you could even become — who knows ? — a schoolteacher . |
| 6 | In other instances we read that museum collections were set on fire . |
| 7 | Teachers ' houses and school buildings were set on fire or bombed in an attempt to intimidate ANDES members ; in the right-wing press , ANDES was accused of fomenting subversion and Communism : |
| 8 | The the the the the the of the Benefit Shop , I make people advice and several of us were set on , on on on er er that you handled recently er er er er i it was the . |
| 9 | Astonishingly ornate decorations which were set on top of the yokes of working oxen , for example , in the form of painted wooden ‘ towers ’ anything up to two feet high , partly hollowed out and fitted with small bells . |
| 10 | It was clear that both parties were set on a collision course , and I could not see the possibility of an out-and-out win for Mrs Castle . |
| 11 | Entry then became based on financial rather than medical or social assessment , and in 1983 upper limits were set on supplementary benefit , resulting in a massive increase in the total national bill for supplementary benefits to people in private sector homes — from £105m in 1983 to £500m by 1986 . |
| 12 | For the first time , the students whose sights were set on a CNAA validated degree were sufficient in numbers to set the pace and the mood . |
| 13 | Hartlepool then comprised 6,000 people , no longer a simple fishing village since dock facilities had recently brought it into the coal-export and timber-import trades ; but Jackson 's sights were set on the adjacent hamlet of Stranton , with a population of 350 . |
| 14 | Her sights were set on Africa and the wider horizons she hoped would be possible after her tropical studies . |
| 15 | In September of that year " many Army and church buildings were set on fire . |
| 16 | Forests were set on fire … |
| 17 | The exchange rates with the US dollar were set on May 10 at US$1.00=12 rials=0.461 dinars . |
| 18 | Police clashed with steel workers in Guayana City , where two people were wounded , and with students in San Félix , where seven people were wounded , 50 were arrested and buses were set on fire . |
| 19 | Cars were set on fire and a bomb attack was made against the mayor 's car with his family inside . |
| 20 | Most of the graphs were set on a steep , ascending curve , apart from the Husayn twins ' ; they started in the top left hand corner and were headed , inexorably , for the far right end of the bottom line . |
| 21 | A BELFAST court was told yesterday that there was no terrorist involvement in an arson attack when a garage and a car in north Belfast were set on fire on Thursday night . |
| 22 | If my heart was set on buying a Sierra XR4x4 , £5000 for the Ritchie Motors offering would be sorely tempting . |
| 23 | The Palace of Justice ( a terrible misnomer ) was set on fire by the workers . |
| 24 | Whatever his standing with Catholics ( and for a short time it was high ) , he was set on a collision course with the representatives of traditional unionism and with no representative more so than Ian R. K. Paisley . |
| 25 | A shopkeeper in Nuremberg who said to a customer what ‘ in these days was common to almost everybody in Nuremberg ’ , that Hitler was set on continuing the war , tried to deceive the people into thinking that he still had a miracle weapon , and was ‘ nothing more than a criminal ’ , was denounced by the customer , taken away by the police , and shot for ‘ subversion of the military power ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the 1980s , this country was set on a course towards industrial efficiency and competitiveness from which the whole of British business will profit once more , when the recession ends . |
| 28 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I said that something was set on fire today . ’ |
| 30 | You are telling me that up there on the stone face of Glasgow your soul was set on fire . ’ |