Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [adv] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants .
2 Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder .
3 A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service .
4 The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust
5 The 1990–91 figure of £50,000 under Continuing Education was set aside for a pupillage sinking fund .
6 A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up .
7 A row of buses waited outside the station to take the racegoers away to a variety of outlying motels , and a long new coach with darkly tinted windows was set aside for the owners .
8 A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money .
9 Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder .
10 Certain lands were set aside for the upkeep of religious and charitable foundations — the vakifs .
11 A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer .
12 The result was that the story was set aside for the time being .
13 The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis .
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