Example sentences of "[was/were] set in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 2 | A wooden doll was made or found to contain her bones ; and round it gold plates and gold wire were set in the ninth century . |
| 3 | The particular tribe among whom he was working couched their teaching in story form , and the main story-line was always the same — the events were set in the context of a journey , for they were a nomadic people . |
| 4 | The town gates were set in the walls where these principal thoroughfares made their exit . |
| 5 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |
| 6 | But the scene was set in the political climate of the Weimar Republic for political and functional devolution , a system of checks and balances between individual , sectional , and national interests . |
| 7 | The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 . |
| 8 | The 28-week limit was set in the 1967 Abortion Act , and since then many premature babies born before 28 weeks have survived . |
| 9 | In fact , the film was set in the 1950s , but it is doubtful whether any but a few of the millions who watched the film appreciated that life in a mental hospital is any different today . |
| 10 | The seal for an uncompromising war of attrition was set in the opening two minutes , when Spurs midfielder David Howells sent David Hillier tumbling and Ray Parlour , Arsenal 's best player , was denied an obvious penalty when Dean Austin tripped him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 13 | It should not lead to a restricted curriculum , and its use was set in the context of a range of other methods which ‘ use pupils ’ own talk , interests and writing as the starting point for further work' ( NCC 1989a : 33 ) . |
| 14 | Turning to the criticisms of the administrative machine through which the political leadership operates , the pattern was set in the early 1960s by Professor Brian Chapman 's British Government Observed . |
| 15 | An oval mirror , pock-marked and fly-stained , was set in the top of this extravagant and monstrous contraption and next to it stood a hollow elephant 's foot mounted on a wooden base . |
| 16 | The Eriksons ( 1852 ) , for instance , described Norwegian life in great detail ; ‘ Our Uncle 's Story ’ ( Our Uncle the Traveller 's Stories , 1859 ) was set in the Black Forest , two others in the Lincolnshire fens and in South Africa respectively . |
| 17 | Or was it because the show was set in the 1950s , the sun always shone , the table always groaned under Ma Larkin 's home-made goodies , and nothing nasty ever happened ? |
| 18 | A door was set in the wall hall-way down and , as she got closer to it , she spotted a brass plate bearing the single word ‘ Erasmus ’ . |
| 19 | It was set in the middle of a corn field , and she turned between the tall stalks of corn and followed the track up to the barn . |
| 20 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 21 | Both ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ and ‘ The disappearance ’ are written by American woman authors in the 1900's , but ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ was set in the 1930's while ‘ The disappearance ’ was set in the 1970 's and I think this is the cause for the difference of the acceptance of the black race into a multi-racial community . |
| 22 | Both ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ and ‘ The disappearance ’ are written by American woman authors in the 1900's , but ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ was set in the 1930's while ‘ The disappearance ’ was set in the 1970 's and I think this is the cause for the difference of the acceptance of the black race into a multi-racial community . |