Example sentences of "were setting the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 2 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 3 | The Americans were setting the pace . |
| 4 | ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace . |
| 5 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |
| 6 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |