Example sentences of "were set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 2 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 3 | The Iraqis argued that if the USA were to set the date for the Bush-Aziz meeting , Iraq should have been allowed to choose the date of the Baker-Saddam meeting . |
| 4 | At the end of the session they were set a homework task and were invited to discuss their feelings . |
| 5 | Following a presentation given by Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence the children were set a questionnaire and asked to design a poster and come up with a project to help safeguard the environment . |
| 6 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 7 | Two hundred young people were set a challenge — put on a full-scale opera , using nothing but rubbish to make the props and scraps of material to create the costumes . |
| 8 | The experiments that were set the ‘ preconceptual ’ children would offer no problems to the children at this stage , but they still can not engage in abstract thinking . |
| 9 | It is a particularly successful version compared with those produced by other pupils in the group who were set the task . |
| 10 | Between the archers were set the formations of pikemen and swordsmen . |
| 11 | Teams representing a cross-section of housing interests were set the task of building a sandy estate incorporating a housing mix of family and old folks ' homes . |
| 12 | As a comparison , he pointed out that if the entire population of China were set the same task , it would take them more than four hours to complete it . |
| 13 | If we were setting a nursery rhyme to music , it would be quite appropriate to use the verse metre and rhythms also in the music ; the result would be simple and naïve . |
| 14 | In front of the hut , several mothers were setting a trestle table with crockery and unwrapping polite little sandwiches . |
| 15 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 16 | The Americans were setting the pace . |
| 17 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 18 | ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace . |
| 19 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 20 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 21 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 22 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |