Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The upper limit of normal for each measure was set at the 95th centile ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 4 | The 28-week limit was set in the 1967 Abortion Act , and since then many premature babies born before 28 weeks have survived . |
| 5 | Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The outer door was set into the lower corner of the left-hand wall . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Naturally straight , black hair was set at the crown on small curlers then gelled into two different shapes . |
| 13 | Great store was set on the word ‘ training ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was reported on Sept. 17 that the Federation of European Stock Exchanges had agreed to initiate a shared electronic market information service for the 200-300 largest companies in the new EC equity market , but no firm timetable was set for the move . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Numerous poles were set into the mossy cobbles of the yard , connected at a height of six feet or so by thin cords . |
| 18 | During the cold war , the size of America 's armed forces was set by the threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 19 | Their first gig was set at the Manchester Ritz , supporting the hyped Blue Rondo A La Turk on October 4th 1982 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , on November 26th 1676 , six constables , four beadles and several others were set at the chapel doors in order to arrest Baxter . |
| 22 | The distinctive tone of the old Conservative party was set by the land : even those who did not belong to great landed families still believed in some romantic notion of the spiritual strength of England 's green and pleasant land . |
| 23 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 24 | New standards were set for the working-class house in terms of space , WC , bathrooms , sunlight and garden space . |
| 25 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |
| 26 | The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine . |
| 27 | A period of seven years was set as the publication cycle for new editions ; the sixteenth edition thus appeared on time in 1958 . |