Example sentences of "[Wh det] 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 .
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