Example sentences of "[was/were] set down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extra appointments could be financed by the court 's customers paying higher charges when cases were set down for trial . |
| 2 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 3 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 4 | The appeal was set down at Bristol , which is the nearest High Court centre where family business is taken but there was no High Court judge then sitting at Bristol , or indeed anywhere else on the Western Circuit . |
| 5 | He still retained property in Dudley , being the largest payer of poor rates there in 1649 ; apart from houses in the town , his land at Netherton Hall nearby was set down at 195¾ acres . |
| 6 | I was set down at Nurina and returned to my roomette before the train tackled the " long straight " , a point where the line runs across the dead heart of the Nullarbor , a distance of 478 kilometres . |
| 7 | In 1988 about one case in 19 was set down for trial and for every 94 writs issued one case was determined by trial . |
| 8 | The silver tray was set down by Lily , who was senior parlourmaid and in her thirties . |
| 9 | The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own , and the curtains drawn aside . |
| 10 | She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine . |