Example sentences of "[pron] was set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These vary in accordance with changes in the company 's issued share capital , subject to an absolute limit which was set at 6,661,855 ordinary shares in August 1985 , representing 5% of the issued share capital at that time . |
| 2 | She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver . |
| 3 | Jebir was arrested on Jan. 28 , shortly after releasing an open letter to Boudiaf which claimed that he was being used by a " junta " which had seized power and which was set to " shed people 's blood " behind his back . |
| 4 | I went outside and stood in front of the police station , which was set on a hill . |
| 5 | I next found myself lying at the bottom of a crude hopper of duck boards which was set on top of an irrigation dyke . |
| 6 | The hotel provides an assortment of highchairs suitable for different ages and plump cushions for those who ca n't quite reach the table , which was set with child-sized cutlery and crockery . |
| 7 | The two groups prepared to write their papers and got ready for joint submission , which was set for Friday 24 March . |
| 8 | The Shipping Federation was well informed on everything but the date of the proposed strike , which was set for I4 June 1911 . |
| 9 | the timetable which was set for the tasks of the project , and |
| 10 | Contrary to her firm intention of not breakfasting with Ven , however , since he was standing by the table which was set for two when she again entered the sitting-room , she thought it would be infantile in the extreme to carry on with that intention . |
| 11 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 12 | But the provisional guid the guideline which was set by Policy and Resources in the first instance , was just for this Committee to identify seventy thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 13 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 14 | In early mosques , the focal point for prayer was a sacred stone ( the qibla ) , which was set in a wall facing Mecca ; it later became customary to enclose this stone within an arch-shaped niche known as a mihrab , or prayer niche . |
| 15 | A pot of ch'ban , a beverage which Alexei thought was quite similar to earth stock coffee , bubbled quietly on a burner which was set in a shallow bowl of sand on the table at her side . |
| 16 | Gai-jin is presented as the second volume in a four-part Japanese saga that began with Shogun ; it also refers to the worlds of Tai-pan , which was about the founding of Hong Kong , and of Noble House , which was set in Hong Kong in 1962 . |
| 17 | The fourth task was to get across a piece of rope which had been tied around three trees which was set in a triangle . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And she was set on her mission of kindness . |
| 20 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 21 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 22 | Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother 's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men . |
| 23 | The hippies used to say : ‘ Wow man , you know we love Lyndon Johnson ’ , and people like Roland Muldoon — who was setting up the Cast street theatre group — were in a much more combative mood . |
| 24 | Everything was set for £25m extension on grounds adjoining the current courts , including a new 10,000 seat Number One Court , eight clay practice courts , five floodlit all-weather courts and other facilities including offices , one of the world 's most modern sports gymnasiums and parking for at least 500 vehicles . |
| 25 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 26 | ‘ I said that something was set on fire today . ’ |
| 27 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 28 | It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one . |
| 29 | His car was vandalised several times and he was forced to move his business after it was set on fire . |
| 30 | It was set on various slopes . |