Example sentences of "[adj] were set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbering limits on this were set at 32767 which might , at first glance seem an impressive number . |
| 2 | Many of the verses were in fact small poems , and some were set to music . |
| 3 | The house of Neill & Co. had patented their own , and since this was one of the offices that most whole-heartedly recruited women , a number of the women compositors at Neill 's in the 1870s were set to work the machines . |
| 4 | These were set in motion once fighting began and were kept in effect despite falls in prices . |
| 5 | All were set in a wide range of localities , were powerful and dramatic , but lack organization . |
| 6 | The latter were set at 90 dollars , or £pound18 a month for able seamen and firemen . |
| 7 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 8 | most were set by several … [ and ] although one compositor might set a whole book , he would not normally be working on that book alone but would intersperse work on other jobs when it was called for … |