Example sentences of "was set [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No date was set for a planned third meeting . |
| 2 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( The upper limit of normal for each measure was set at the 95th centile ) . |
| 5 | The fireplace in question was set into a huge thick wall that partly divided the main room . |
| 6 | His face was set into the perfect sympathetic mould now . |
| 7 | It was set with a full English breakfast — well , she had told Michele she was always hungry — and while she poured herself some coffee and began on the bacon and eggs she recalled their first meeting . |
| 8 | Imhotep , however , created for his king a six-stepped pyramid tomb , which rose to a height of 204 feet ( 62.2m ) and which was set within a rectangular walled enclosure containing various ritual buildings , the whole funerary complex being constructed with stone . |
| 9 | 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 . |