Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 2 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 3 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
| 4 | Hampshire county councillor Peter Maxwell was at the meeting and he said that the community charge had been set at £237 , which is £33 below the government guideline . |
| 5 | When it had been examined and test-flown by the manufacturer 's pilot prior to the revalidation of the microlight 's Permit to Fly both wingtip adjusters had been set at the neutral position with no apparent need for any change . |
| 6 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 7 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |
| 8 | The stake had been set at a silver thruppence — a thruppence which ( Louisa remembered smiling now ) she had never seen , for the afternoon had ended in disaster . |
| 9 | In the original presentation to the Majlis on Feb. 20 , the government budget had been set at IR5,596,000 million and revenue at IR4,009,000 million , giving a projected deficit of IR1,587,000 million . |
| 10 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 11 | The union budget for 1991 had been set at Rbs250,000 million with provision for a Rbs26,000 million deficit [ see p. 37970 ] . |
| 12 | Even then Wilson refused to sign the budget bill until congress had passed enabling legislation which provided for a suspension of the minimum school financing requirement ( which , under the terms of a 1988 initiative , had been set at 40 per cent of the state 's general fund ) should the education loan be ruled unconstitutional in court . |
| 13 | He said that capping levels had been set at a devastatingly harsh level and fairness was completely absent from the settlement . |
| 14 | This should have satisfied the students , but it was too little , too late ; a course of action had been set into motion which was difficult to reverse . |
| 15 | There was curling , ornate moulding around the tops of the windows and coats of arms had been set into the metal work of the huge wrought-iron gate . |
| 16 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 17 | The Council of Ministers announced on March 7 that June 12 had been set as the date for multiparty local and provincial elections ( to the assemblées populaires communales and the assemblées populaires de wilayas ) , postponed from December 1989 and then again from March 1990 [ see p. 37218 ] to allow more time for newly-created political parties to prepare their campaigns . |
| 18 | GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 19 | Firemen needed police support as they tackled a car in the driveway which had been set on fire . |
| 20 | A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply . |
| 21 | On the top terrace was a line of cypress leylandii trees , quite small as yet , eight rhododendron bushes — obviously fairly recent plantings , and on ground level a grinding stone four feet across which had been set on a granite plinth and made into a table with slate seats supported on bricks at right angles to it . |
| 22 | But they arrived to discover the house had been set on fire by attempts to burn large quantities of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 23 | He had visited the billiard room that morning and his nerves had been set on edge by the distressing scenes he had witnessed . |
| 24 | A £2,000,000 target had been set for the Battle of Britain Wings Appeal in the full knowledge that our sister charity , the RAF Benevolent Fund was launching its £20,000,000 ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , and that the Association would be offering as much support as possible to that . |
| 25 | By 1988 age-limits had been set for top posts and the way they were filled had become more democratic . |
| 26 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 27 | No date had been set for pesticides to meet the MACs in Severn Trent . |
| 28 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 29 | On 19th May Edward moved into the Tower of London to await his Coronation , which had been set for 22nd June . |
| 30 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |