Example sentences of "[noun pl] was set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By contrast , the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million . |
| 4 | The maximum customs tariff on imports was set at 50 per cent and the minimum at 10 per cent . |
| 5 | The machinery of identifying and training field workers from among the community groups , and in some areas , college students , of the selection of regional staff and State co-ordinators was set in motion even though the ARC delayed in granting approval for the funding . |
| 6 | There were also the militia , who were duly called out , and the usual routine of beacons and watchers was set in motion . |
| 7 | A period of seven years was set as the publication cycle for new editions ; the sixteenth edition thus appeared on time in 1958 . |
| 8 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |
| 10 | The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25 , the lower limit we did n't set . |
| 11 | The abortive attack on Cuba at the Bay of Pigs was set in train by the Eisenhower administration and implemented by Kennedy in 1961 without Congressional approval . |
| 12 | Subject to some negotiation , the level of any such limits was set by reference to what the organization considered to be its " core " level of business , and again there were substantial variations to be observed . |
| 13 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 14 | During the cold war , the size of America 's armed forces was set by the threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 15 | During his last years he lived in Switzerland , and his novel Hidden Hands was set in that country . |
| 16 | I think that in the short term something needs to be done as the travellers are starting to be harassed and recently one of their caravans was set on fire though the culprits are yet , unknown . |
| 17 | The limit between nodular hyperplasia of endocrine ( argyrophil ) cells and carcinoid tumours was set at the size of 0.5 mm according to the classification of Solcia et al . |
| 18 | The pretty village with its coloured houses and shuttered windows and narrow streets was set among olive groves on a hill . |
| 19 | A target figure of 70 machine sets of components was set for delivery by 31 July 1942 , out of a total order of 225 sets , later reduced to 160 . |
| 20 | One of Rayner 's first acts was to set in train a series of efficiency scrutinies within Whitehall . |
| 21 | The public , however , has a right to know , so a team of Punch researchers was set to work , quizzing fashion experts about the men whose very arrival at a wardrobe signals sartorial disaster . |