Example sentences of "[was/were] set [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 2 | New standards were set for the working-class house in terms of space , WC , bathrooms , sunlight and garden space . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Below us the broad terraces of Hatshepsut 's temple were set into the curving amphitheatre of the cliffs . |
| 5 | Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) . |
| 6 | The stage was set for the following year when Christie 's New York offered the now famous ‘ Egyptian ’ clock , estimated at $200,000–300,000 . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |
| 8 | From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland . |
| 9 | A calendar with a colour photograph of a snow scene was set between the framed painting of Lenin and the portrait of Andropov of the Politburo . |
| 10 | While it is of course very difficult to fix an offer price several weeks or even months in advance who knows how share prices in general will change in the meantime ? — the table does seem to confirm our earlier claim that , on average , the offer price was set below the free market price . |
| 11 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |
| 12 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 13 | The lower age limit was set by the National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer 's Disease and Related Disorders Association ( NINCDS-ADRDA ) and the upper age set by convention for presenile disease . |
| 14 | But the scene was set in the political climate of the Weimar Republic for political and functional devolution , a system of checks and balances between individual , sectional , and national interests . |
| 15 | The Eriksons ( 1852 ) , for instance , described Norwegian life in great detail ; ‘ Our Uncle 's Story ’ ( Our Uncle the Traveller 's Stories , 1859 ) was set in the Black Forest , two others in the Lincolnshire fens and in South Africa respectively . |
| 16 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 17 | The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 . |
| 18 | The hippies used to say : ‘ Wow man , you know we love Lyndon Johnson ’ , and people like Roland Muldoon — who was setting up the Cast street theatre group — were in a much more combative mood . |