Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection . |
| 2 | To prevent seepage from the soil eroding the bottom part of the mud wall , a layer of fired bricks was set into the wall to separate the mud bricks from the foundation . |
| 3 | At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth . |
| 4 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 5 | With enthusiastic Board members , an experienced Registrar and a small staff , and the accumulated validation experience of the late 1960s and early 1970s , the scene was set for the acquisition of a major award in the field , and the continued development of business and management studies that we have seen . |
| 6 | Then while the Sassanian dynasty was emerging in its turn , following the Parthians who had swept away the Seleucid regime that ruled both Mesopotamia and the lands farther east after the break-up of Alexander 's vast empire in the fourth century BC , the scene was set for the emergence of Islam . |
| 7 | The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains . |
| 8 | Lunch was set on the terrace , as he 'd promised , and Luce let him draw out a chair for her . |
| 9 | The cat was set among the pigeons in 1952 when , von Neumann notwithstanding , David Bohm constructed a specific example of a hidden variable theory which did agree precisely with conventional quantum mechanics in all its empirical predictions . |
| 10 | In June 1991 the government introduced a draft Pact of Progress , which controversially sought to tie wage rises to productivity ; a deadline for union agreement on the plan was set for the end of September [ see p. 38114 ] . |
| 11 | The bid for Rowntree was set in the context of a shift in consumer preference away from ‘ slab ’ bars of chocolate towards ‘ countline ’ products ( individually wrapped chocolate snacks ) — an area in which Rowntree had great strength . |
| 12 | A period of seven years was set as the publication cycle for new editions ; the sixteenth edition thus appeared on time in 1958 . |
| 13 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |
| 14 | Candles in jam-jars were set around the heap of boulders . |
| 15 | The cooking fires were lit and pots were set over the flames to boil . |
| 16 | The mooring posts from the tanks and from the lower pounds were set alongside the lock flight , possibly the only parts of the lift still doing duty at Foxton . |
| 17 | John Matcham 's name was set by the printer and the ‘ woollcomber ’ pulled the press . |
| 18 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 19 | The example was set by the Despensers , especially the younger , who flourished in the king 's continued favour and looked to their own profit while they extended his . |
| 20 | Their first gig was set at the Manchester Ritz , supporting the hyped Blue Rondo A La Turk on October 4th 1982 . |
| 21 | The seal for an uncompromising war of attrition was set in the opening two minutes , when Spurs midfielder David Howells sent David Hillier tumbling and Ray Parlour , Arsenal 's best player , was denied an obvious penalty when Dean Austin tripped him . |
| 22 | It should not lead to a restricted curriculum , and its use was set in the context of a range of other methods which ‘ use pupils ’ own talk , interests and writing as the starting point for further work' ( NCC 1989a : 33 ) . |
| 23 | Great store was set on the word ‘ training ’ . |
| 24 | No limit was set on the number or size of political parties , although each was prohibited from receiving more than 20 per cent of its budget in the form of grants or donations from abroad , and each was required to pay a registration fee of 1,000,000 francs CFA ( approximately US$3,900 ) . |
| 25 | Payments were set by the Warsaw Convention , which , executive director Geoffrey Lipman complains , is 60 years out of date , although the protection guidelines are still valid . |
| 26 | A door was set in the wall hall-way down and , as she got closer to it , she spotted a brass plate bearing the single word ‘ Erasmus ’ . |
| 27 | During the cold war , the size of America 's armed forces was set by the threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 28 | Brazilian diamonds were used to define the main bands , a fine Indian diamond was set at the middle , a Ceylonese sapphire appeared above the globe and over all was set a cross of pink diamonds . |
| 29 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 30 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |