Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On other occasions , teachers commented that tasks without an obvious method of solution which were set to the intake year and also to other years were tackled better by the intake year in spite of the fact that they were younger . |
| 2 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 3 | Astonishingly ornate decorations which were set on top of the yokes of working oxen , for example , in the form of painted wooden ‘ towers ’ anything up to two feet high , partly hollowed out and fitted with small bells . |
| 4 | In the " picotage " method , printing blocks were studded with tens of thousands of pins or studs which were set by young women who could , after completing their apprenticeship , earn the very high wage for women of 12 to 14s ( 60-70p ) a week . |
| 5 | The light which fell on their brown skins was dappled , as in the television adverts she had seen which were set in jungles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I went outside and stood in front of the police station , which was set on a hill . |
| 10 | I next found myself lying at the bottom of a crude hopper of duck boards which was set on top of an irrigation dyke . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The two groups prepared to write their papers and got ready for joint submission , which was set for Friday 24 March . |
| 13 | The Shipping Federation was well informed on everything but the date of the proposed strike , which was set for I4 June 1911 . |
| 14 | the timetable which was set for the tasks of the project , and |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The fourth task was to get across a piece of rope which had been tied around three trees which was set in a triangle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Punctuation , spelling and the layout of ensembles have also been systematised according to what was set to music . |
| 25 | Meal times were silent : everyone at the table in time for grace to be said ; everyone eating what was set before him . |