Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 2 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 3 | His broad shoulders and powerful legs were set off to perfection by the excellent cut , while a snow-white silk shirt emphasised his tanned , rugged face . |
| 4 | By statistical analysis of his surveys he showed that the megaliths were set out to a common unit of measurement , the megalithic yard of 0.83 m. , not in simple circles but in circular arcs centred on right-angled triangles . |
| 5 | A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts . |
| 6 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 7 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |
| 8 | A committee of Privy Counsellors , under the chairmanship of Lord Radcliffe , was set up to ‘ review the arrangements which should govern the publication of memoirs by former ministers during the period of thirty years that official documents are subject to the provisions of the Public Records Act ’ . |
| 9 | Yes erm during the h the Probably one of the reasons I was set on to start with , was the tremendous amount of house building . |