Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time ten battalions of Territorials were set to work building a new broad-gauge railway to Revigny . |
| 2 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 3 | The Revd Edward Chichester published a pamphlet in 1818 entitled Oppressions and Cruelties of Irish Revenue Officers , in which he described how , in 1810 , a detachment of the army led by Coffey was set upon and disarmed by the country people near Culdaff in Inishowen , and he himself was beaten ‘ until he was supposed to be dead ’ . |
| 4 | Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection . |
| 5 | 9 February was set for sentencing . |
| 6 | A world record for work by Eileen Gray was set at Drouot on 3 July when Paris dealer Cheska Vallois parted with FFr1.16 million ( £123,404 ; $245,574 ) , double the estimate , for a rectangular red lacquered table by the Art Deco designer . |
| 7 | The standard spending assessment for all services in Derbyshire was set at 17 per cent . |
| 8 | The bid for Rowntree was set in the context of a shift in consumer preference away from ‘ slab ’ bars of chocolate towards ‘ countline ’ products ( individually wrapped chocolate snacks ) — an area in which Rowntree had great strength . |
| 9 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 10 | When stopped for the first offence , he claimed the cruise control on his BMW was set at 98mph . |
| 11 | Another evidently believed that The Merchant of Venice was set in greater Los Angeles . |
| 12 | MLR was set at ½%; above the average rate of discount for Treasury bills at the most recent tender , rounded to the nearest ¼%; above . |
| 13 | A police spokesman said Saints ' midfielder Terry Hurlock was set upon inside the club and former Arsenal forward Perry Groves helped restrain the attacker . |
| 14 | Initially the TDR was set at 8 per cent in the mid-1960s and raised to 10 per cent in 1969 The rate was reviewed in 1972 but not changed . |
| 15 | accepted that if the subsequent appeal to the House of Lords were set to one side , there might be grounds for a relisting on the basis that the Court of Appeal had departed from well-established practice in resolving but one of the grounds of appeal , leaving outstanding points of appeal on which submissions had been made . |
| 16 | Thacker was set on fire and I 'm not sure what happened to Bradbury . |
| 17 | Mr Ridley was set against Labour 's Gordon Brown , making an authoritative debut as Labour 's industry spokesman . |
| 18 | Thirty years ago teacher education in Britain was set for a major expansion . |
| 19 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |
| 20 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 21 | Dorothy was set in Kent in 1740 . |
| 22 | Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations . |
| 23 | Some of his buildings were burnt down and the house in Rutledge Terrace was set on fire . |
| 24 | Neither the exactions of the Versailles Treaty nor the creation of a republican form of government rooted out the nationalist old guard or revolutionised the German social structure ; within 15 years , Germany was set on a course of revanche . |
| 25 | According to official results released on Dec. 22 , in the first round of presidential elections held on Nov. 25 , Albert Zafy of the Comité des forces vives won 45.16 per cent of votes cast , the incumbent President Didier Ratsiraka 19.22 per cent and Manandafy Rakotonirina of the Movement for Proletarian Power ( MFM ) 10.21 per cent ( there were five other candidates ) ; the date for the second round run-off between Zafy and Ratsiraka was set for Feb. 10 , 1993 . |
| 26 | Our ETR back at Deenethorpe was set at 1420 hours ’ . |
| 27 | Early in the season , Tony Wright bravely predicted that Gloucestershire were set for a successful summer . |
| 28 | A BELFAST court was told yesterday that there was no terrorist involvement in an arson attack when a garage and a car in north Belfast were set on fire on Thursday night . |
| 29 | A shopkeeper in Nuremberg who said to a customer what ‘ in these days was common to almost everybody in Nuremberg ’ , that Hitler was set on continuing the war , tried to deceive the people into thinking that he still had a miracle weapon , and was ‘ nothing more than a criminal ’ , was denounced by the customer , taken away by the police , and shot for ‘ subversion of the military power ’ . |
| 30 | But Wolfgang was set on going to Munich , armed with two new arias for Aloysia . |