Example sentences of "[noun sg] was set [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder .
2 A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service .
3 The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust
4 A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money .
5 A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer .
6 The result was that the story was set aside for the time being .
7 The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis .
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