Example sentences of "[noun] was set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A deadline for the deal was set for today . |
| 2 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 3 | Revenue was set at L436,700,000 million and expenditure at L569,700,000 million , leaving a borrowing requirement of L133,000,000 million ( approximately $105,000 million ) . |
| 4 | In February 1990 the government adopted a budget with a projected deficit of 11,442 million francs CFA ; revenue was set at 98,143 million francs CFA , and expenditure at 109,585 million francs CFA . |
| 5 | Total budget revenue was set at 50,500,000 million rupiah , an increase of 18 per cent over the 1990-91 budget ( US$1.00=RPs1,897.44 as at Jan. 14 , 1991 ) . |
| 6 | Revenue was set at AD189,500 million , compared with AD144,400 million for 1991 , and expenditure at AD176,000 million , as compared AD149,000 million the previous year . |
| 7 | The seal was set on his career in 1771 when he was elected president of the newly established Society of Civil Engineers , an exclusive ‘ club ’ admitting by invitation only the most eminent members of the profession . |
| 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 | His mind was set on walking down his quarry and had room for nothing else . |
| 10 | The aircraft was set on automatic pilot , leaving Vologsky little more than a passenger for the time being . |
| 11 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 12 | The dominance reduction programme was set for about a four week period , although many of the suggestion do have to be carried out longer term — or even permanently — for best results with pairs of fighting male dogs . |
| 13 | The Home Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere ( Hope ) programme was set to be expanded , but overall the proposed expenditure on " choice " was to be an estimated $16,000 million in fiscal 1992 , approximately $3,700 million less than in the current fiscal year . |
| 14 | Careful research was set in train to discover the best way to restore gardens and historic landscape parks to their former glory . |
| 15 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 16 | Many different varieties of apples emerged in the US and its apple industry was set in motion by Henderson Luelling — a fortune hunter who went west during the gold rush in a covered wagon full of soil and apple trees . |
| 17 | The carriage was set to KC throughout , but weaving yarn was not laid over the needles on every row . |
| 18 | A price of £250,000 was agreed , and completion was set for August 1980 . |
| 19 | The Revd Edward Chichester published a pamphlet in 1818 entitled Oppressions and Cruelties of Irish Revenue Officers , in which he described how , in 1810 , a detachment of the army led by Coffey was set upon and disarmed by the country people near Culdaff in Inishowen , and he himself was beaten ‘ until he was supposed to be dead ’ . |
| 20 | A large , round stone plaque was set into it , depicting the face of a human or , perhaps , a god . |
| 21 | Her mouth was set in a stubborn line , and she was scowling . |
| 22 | The brief dew on his lashes , that had caught the thin early rays of the risen sun , was dry enough now , his mouth was set in a rigid line . |
| 23 | The lines from his nose to his mouth were deeper , his mouth was set in a grim line and his eyes were bleak , or perhaps her memory was at fault … but she knew it was n't ; she knew every inch of his face . |
| 24 | The wedding was set for October , and Elizabeth was offered a reward , for which she was sweetly grateful ; the Maclean was invited to bring his heir to Inveraray for the betrothal . |
| 25 | In 1976 the figure was set at 20,000 , and it was expected in that year that the figure would not exceed 15,000 in the following and subsequent years . |
| 26 | Cabinet consideration of the social security review was set for Thursday 25 April . |
| 27 | Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection . |
| 28 | To prevent seepage from the soil eroding the bottom part of the mud wall , a layer of fired bricks was set into the wall to separate the mud bricks from the foundation . |
| 29 | At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth . |
| 30 | The scene was set for progress towards a modern network . |