Example sentences of "[was/were] set [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No new date was set for a ninth round of talks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 6 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |