Example sentences of "were set a " 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 | At the end of the session they were set a homework task and were invited to discuss their feelings . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In front of the hut , several mothers were setting a trestle table with crockery and unwrapping polite little sandwiches . |
| 8 | 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 . |