Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally , these days were set apart for special prayer and fasting . |
| 2 | The 12 days between April 15th and April 26th were set aside for a ‘ points of light celebration of service ’ . |
| 3 | Four aides-de-camp were appointed and apartments in the Tuileries were set aside for bedroom , study and play room . |
| 4 | A ‘ Book of Hours ’ was the name given to such a prayerbook intended for private or family devotion , the term ‘ hours ’ indicating not an interval of sixty minutes , but less precise parts of the day that were set aside for religious and other duties . |
| 5 | Certain lands were set aside for the upkeep of religious and charitable foundations — the vakifs . |
| 6 | Two rooms in the hotel were set aside for children . |
| 7 | The New Shed dealt with manufactured goods ( toys , groceries , hardware , etc. ) , the Old Down Shed with bulk traffic ( flour , grain , fresh fruit ) , and two special sheds were set aside for American and French imported goods . |
| 8 | A further 100 seats were set aside for members to be appointed proportionally among political parties winning at least 5 per cent of the vote , including 20 reserved for overseas Chinese . |
| 9 | In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants . |
| 10 | The date for the trial of Orchin , Richmond and McCready was set eventually for mid-February 1974 , sixteen months after their arrests . |
| 11 | These ceremonies set the Church 's seal on the election , symbolized that the king was God ‘ s choice as well as man 's , and that he was set apart for the work . |
| 12 | In particular , finding the other " nasty " number changes nothing — the challenge was set just for fun . |
| 13 | The event raised £1m , most of which was set aside for investment in a trust fund . |
| 14 | Having saluted the Ambassadors , who stood in a circle next to the door leading from the Galerie de Diane to the Salle des Maréchaux , the Emperor and Empress entered the Ballroom and mounted the dais which was set aside for them . |
| 15 | White House officials played down the revolutionary tenor of Reagan 's comments , saying that no new infusion of money was set aside for lasers , only that a ‘ reorganisation ’ of the new disparate research projects is underway . |
| 16 | More than Dm300 million was set aside for future environmental protection measures , and stocks were valued according to the ‘ last in , first out ’ principle , which cuts out paper profit ( and thus reduces taxable profit ) when prices rise . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Land was set aside for another ranch , and this was promptly invaded by vast herds of plains game when rain finally fell and grass grew . |
| 19 | The result was that the story was set aside for the time being . |
| 20 | An addition to Rotterdam 's World Trade Center was built in 1986–87 and one part of it was set aside for a V.I.P. entertainment suite . |
| 21 | Saturday morning was set aside for cleaning and general tidying up . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend 's second criticism of the way in which the scheme has worked is that the £24 million budget which was set aside for the two financial years — and I emphasise two years — 1989-91 was underspent . |
| 23 | The aim is to provide the kind of understanding necessary for improved policy analysis in the future and £100,000 a year was set aside for this programme . |
| 24 | Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 . |
| 25 | Certainly workshop space was set aside for women who are involved in the Labour Party . |
| 26 | The 1990–91 figure of £50,000 under Continuing Education was set aside for a pupillage sinking fund . |
| 27 | Interim Flight Authority arrived on August 11 , 1992 and the 17th was set aside for the great day . |
| 28 | Mr Chris Clayton , an electronics and electrical engineer , spent an hour quizzing Dr. Male on Thursday , which along with yesterday ( Fri ) was set aside for objectors to cross examine a panel of NGC witnesses . |