Example sentences of "[was/were] set [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 2 | The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command . |
| 3 | ( The upper limit of normal for each measure was set at the 95th centile ) . |
| 4 | His face was set into the perfect sympathetic mould now . |
| 5 | Turning to the criticisms of the administrative machine through which the political leadership operates , the pattern was set in the early 1960s by Professor Brian Chapman 's British Government Observed . |