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

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1 In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants .
2 The rails were set flush with the concrete and he negotiated them carefully .
3 The 1990–91 figure of £50,000 under Continuing Education was set aside for a pupillage sinking fund .
4 Following the grand jury 's indictment , however , the retrial was set aside pending the outcome of the federal case .
5 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 .
6 The relationship is unusual in that Scrope 's men were set directly under the duke .
7 The relationship is unusual in that Scrope 's men were set directly under the duke .
8 Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers .
9 Certain lands were set aside for the upkeep of religious and charitable foundations — the vakifs .
10 Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years .
11 Sewell lived in a house in College , and it is pleasing to note that in 1807 , £50 was set aside by the College for furnishing two ground floor rooms in his house , and for applying oil paint to floor , architrave , dado and skirting , in white , and to the walls in a light French gray .
12 The result was that the story was set aside for the time being .
13 In May 1965 £100 from the Society Stewards ' accounts was set aside as the beginning of a Building Fund , the purpose of which was either to extend the existing halls or to build new ones .
14 Israel appears to have shared many of the techniques and conceptions of sacrifice of her neighbours , but her own observances were set firmly in the framework of God 's revelation at Sinai .
15 The second series of the Advocates was set partly in the University itself .
16 In various parts of the Bible all these offerings are said to " alone " — to cover sin — indicating that any act of worship was set squarely in the context of God 's forgiving grace .
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