Example sentences of "[was/were] set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 2 | Many of the verses were in fact small poems , and some were set to music . |
| 3 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 4 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 5 | A mechanical bush-clearing company was called in , but it soon became apparent that machines could not accomplish all that was required , and labourers from other tribes were set to work . |
| 6 | Hence gangs of navvies ( mainly Irish ) were set to work on the task of excavation and works ; they lived in mud huts , huts which would only offer the most primitive shelter from the elements . |
| 7 | So vast quantities of stone were stockpiled along the way , and gangs of territorials , perhaps 1,000 in all , were set to work around the clock filling in and levelling the holes as they formed . |
| 8 | The house of Neill & Co. had patented their own , and since this was one of the offices that most whole-heartedly recruited women , a number of the women compositors at Neill 's in the 1870s were set to work the machines . |
| 9 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 10 | A take note was issued allowing exploration to start at once and men were set to work in December of 1823 . |
| 11 | Old Kewlany and his mate , as mystified as anyone , were set to work elsewhere for the time being . |
| 12 | At the same time ten battalions of Territorials were set to work building a new broad-gauge railway to Revigny . |
| 13 | As with local government , the essential problem for the NHS in this exercise is that the SSAPs were set with businesses in mind . |
| 14 | Presidential and general elections were set for Oct. 28 , and Mwinyi was chosen by the CCM as the sole candidate for the presidency . |
| 15 | Fresh elections were set for Oct. 21 and 28 . |
| 16 | The elections for the presidency were set for December and Louis-Napoleon put his name forward as one of five candidates . |
| 17 | On July 24 dates were set for elections to a unicameral National Assembly , in what would be Lebanon 's first general election since 1972 . |
| 18 | There is the Brick Hall , which makes a super picture gallery , the Big Drawing Room , and the adjoining Long Hall , where places were set for dinner at one long table for 160 guests ! |
| 19 | Higher standards were set for advocates , who dominated Supreme Court business . |
| 20 | Two rounds of presidential elections were set for June 14 and June 28 . |
| 21 | Her sights were set on Africa and the wider horizons she hoped would be possible after her tropical studies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The exchange rates with the US dollar were set on May 10 at US$1.00=12 rials=0.461 dinars . |
| 24 | Two passenger cars were set on fire outside the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 25 | In other instances we read that museum collections were set on fire . |
| 26 | Teachers ' houses and school buildings were set on fire or bombed in an attempt to intimidate ANDES members ; in the right-wing press , ANDES was accused of fomenting subversion and Communism : |
| 27 | In September of that year " many Army and church buildings were set on fire . |
| 28 | Forests were set on fire … |
| 29 | Police clashed with steel workers in Guayana City , where two people were wounded , and with students in San Félix , where seven people were wounded , 50 were arrested and buses were set on fire . |
| 30 | Cars were set on fire and a bomb attack was made against the mayor 's car with his family inside . |