Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The upper limit of normal for each measure was set at the 95th centile ) . |
| 2 | Each link was set with a large stone according alphabetically with the lady 's husband and siblings — malachite for Maximilian , aquamarine for Amelie , amethyst for Augustus , emerald for Eugenie , chrysoprase for Constantine , jacinth for Josephine , topaz for Teolinde and amethyst for Auguste Amelie . |
| 3 | Because that level was set by the government , the licence fee was too often seen as a political issue and a source of political pressure . |
| 4 | The long , carved lips were set in a tight line and the straight black brows were screwed up in a frown . |
| 5 | Some books were set by a single compositor , but |
| 6 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 7 | BRITAIN 'S new top judge was set for a clash with the Government last night after he called for SHORTER jail sentences . |
| 8 | The seal on this rapprochement was set with a treaty of peace with the Picts to which Bede refers in the penultimate chapter of the Ecclesiastical History as a significant aspect of the situation in 731 ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 9 | The new Kuwaiti dinar was set at a rate of US$1.00=KD0.2857 , the rate applicable before the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion . |
| 10 | Her oval face with its large dark eyes and high forehead was set on a long , graceful neck . |
| 11 | A hard kitchen-type chair was set near a table with three legs . |
| 12 | The 28-week limit was set in the 1967 Abortion Act , and since then many premature babies born before 28 weeks have survived . |
| 13 | While such rural development in non-agricultural activity was also made eligible for aid from the ERDF and ESF , the overall level of funding in this area was set at a relatively low level , in relation to the other Objectives , and in comparison to the budget allocated to the CAP . |
| 14 | In the 1980s , this country was set on a course towards industrial efficiency and competitiveness from which the whole of British business will profit once more , when the recession ends . |
| 15 | Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations . |
| 16 | From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The second ad was set in a courtroom and described our new product ‘ Balanced Banking ’ and had the message that , with our automatic transfer , customers ‘ money was always in the right place to earn more interest . |
| 19 | The snow was dirtied there , earth spattered , and a dark mound was set beside a hole . |
| 20 | The outer door was set into the lower corner of the left-hand wall . |
| 21 | The Palace 's ample walled garden was set like a box of sweets at the foot of the cathedral tower . |
| 22 | All of this magical garden was set in an acre of tough , fibrous grass on which a boy with a curved knife squatted on his haunches while cropping the ‘ lawns ’ . |
| 23 | First the basic minimum was set at a very low level and was related to pre-war wages thus not reflecting the very steep increase in the prices of basic necessities . |
| 24 | The limit between nodular hyperplasia of endocrine ( argyrophil ) cells and carcinoid tumours was set at the size of 0.5 mm according to the classification of Solcia et al . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Naturally straight , black hair was set at the crown on small curlers then gelled into two different shapes . |
| 28 | It has long been one of the curiosities of our political history that the previous all-time record was set by a party that actually lost the election , Clement Attlee 's Labour Party in 1951 . |
| 29 | Great store was set on the word ‘ training ’ . |
| 30 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |