Example sentences of "were set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And some of those romances were set in medieval Aquitaine of the troubadours — which certainly constitutes one common interest that drew Pound and Hewlett together . ) |
| 2 | The light which fell on their brown skins was dappled , as in the television adverts she had seen which were set in jungles . |
| 3 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 4 | A wooden doll was made or found to contain her bones ; and round it gold plates and gold wire were set in the ninth century . |
| 5 | Sickness and pride , in the grey light of day , were set in his unchanging face like a mask . |
| 6 | It was when it was disturbed — when the predator-prey ratio , or climatic changes , occurred — that events were set in train which would lead to inevitable extinction . |
| 7 | The particular tribe among whom he was working couched their teaching in story form , and the main story-line was always the same — the events were set in the context of a journey , for they were a nomadic people . |
| 8 | That was part of the trouble , that was how it was that events were set in motion . |
| 9 | That has certainly been true of banks since the Basle capital standards were set in 1988 . |
| 10 | The workroom was extremely tidy and four chairs were set in a row in front of the puppet theatre . |
| 11 | From then on the figures used in the White Paper to set targets for future spending were set in ‘ cash terms ’ . |
| 12 | All were set in a wide range of localities , were powerful and dramatic , but lack organization . |
| 13 | Plans were set in action for the upgrading of publishing and education programmes and rejuvenation of the soldiery as well as the more obvious building and social programmes . |
| 14 | She felt as if an express train were speeding towards her — but her feet were set in concrete and there was nothing she could do . |
| 15 | Her grey eyes were set in a brown skin smooth like the shell of a hen 's egg . |
| 16 | The long , carved lips were set in a tight line and the straight black brows were screwed up in a frown . |
| 17 | The stacks of plates were put beside them , and the bowls of coleslaw , potato salad and other food that did not need cooking were set in place . |
| 18 | Preparations were set in motion to introduce by the end of the year a much shorter " core " list of restricted items , affecting only 30-50 per cent of the 116 items on the current list . |
| 19 | It provoked a furious backlash from Yeltsin 's opponents , including those inside the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet , where moves were set in train to hold a vote of no confidence in his leadership . |
| 20 | These were set in motion once fighting began and were kept in effect despite falls in prices . |
| 21 | The town gates were set in the walls where these principal thoroughfares made their exit . |
| 22 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 23 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 24 | Preparations were set in hand for a major effort on the Left Bank on March 6th , for which a new Army Corps , the VI Reserve , was earmarked ( representing , in terms of manpower , an outlay of rather more than the reserves Falkenhayn had withheld in February ) . |