Example sentences of "[was/were] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cooking fires were lit and pots were set over the flames to boil . |
| 2 | On other occasions , teachers commented that tasks without an obvious method of solution which were set to the intake year and also to other years were tackled better by the intake year in spite of the fact that they were younger . |
| 3 | New standards were set for the working-class house in terms of space , WC , bathrooms , sunlight and garden space . |
| 4 | They were set for the garlic and the prawns , if they made it quick . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 7 | Hartlepool then comprised 6,000 people , no longer a simple fishing village since dock facilities had recently brought it into the coal-export and timber-import trades ; but Jackson 's sights were set on the adjacent hamlet of Stranton , with a population of 350 . |
| 8 | However , on November 26th 1676 , six constables , four beadles and several others were set at the chapel doors in order to arrest Baxter . |
| 9 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 10 | Sculptural panels illustrating ‘ Engineering ’ , ‘ Agriculture ’ , ‘ Commerce ’ , ‘ Science ’ , and ‘ Trade ’ were set into the gables , and cameo busts of the directors of the company were placed in the main façade . |
| 11 | Below us the broad terraces of Hatshepsut 's temple were set into the curving amphitheatre of the cliffs . |
| 12 | Numerous poles were set into the mossy cobbles of the yard , connected at a height of six feet or so by thin cords . |
| 13 | Candles in jam-jars were set around the heap of boulders . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When shortages of equipment , powder , bombs and food were set alongside the shortage of men , the prospect of eventual victory receded still further . |
| 16 | Bunks were set against the walls , kerosene heaters gave instant heat , while electric kettles enabled tea or coffee to be made . |
| 17 | Standards were set within the firm rather than externally and so organisations were essentially static rather than dynamic . |
| 18 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 19 | A wooden doll was made or found to contain her bones ; and round it gold plates and gold wire were set in the ninth century . |
| 20 | The particular tribe among whom he was working couched their teaching in story form , and the main story-line was always the same — the events were set in the context of a journey , for they were a nomadic people . |
| 21 | The town gates were set in the walls where these principal thoroughfares made their exit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |
| 24 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | The group is also concerned that if , as currently proposed , internationally-harmonized food standards were set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission [ see SAFE report , below ] , quality would decline . |
| 27 | By then , however , the stage was set for the rise of the true State . |
| 28 | So the stage was set for the inquisition . |
| 29 | The stage was set for the establishment of thirteen ‘ centres of excellence ’ for the development of full-time surveying — thanks , principally to the foresight and energy of HMI Howard Wainwright — and for the first time a sense of security and confidence was available to the selected centres , as they were encouraged to improve their resources base and to develop exempting RICS diplomas , and subsequently degrees , to be validated by the CNAA . |
| 30 | 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 . |