Example sentences of "[was/were] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 2 | The Iraqis argued that if the USA were to set the date for the Bush-Aziz meeting , Iraq should have been allowed to choose the date of the Baker-Saddam meeting . |
| 3 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 4 | Following a presentation given by Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence the children were set a questionnaire and asked to design a poster and come up with a project to help safeguard the environment . |
| 5 | At the end of the session they were set a homework task and were invited to discuss their feelings . |
| 6 | Two hundred young people were set a challenge — put on a full-scale opera , using nothing but rubbish to make the props and scraps of material to create the costumes . |
| 7 | It is a particularly successful version compared with those produced by other pupils in the group who were set the task . |
| 8 | Teams representing a cross-section of housing interests were set the task of building a sandy estate incorporating a housing mix of family and old folks ' homes . |
| 9 | Between the archers were set the formations of pikemen and swordsmen . |
| 10 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 11 | If we were setting a nursery rhyme to music , it would be quite appropriate to use the verse metre and rhythms also in the music ; the result would be simple and naïve . |
| 12 | In front of the hut , several mothers were setting a trestle table with crockery and unwrapping polite little sandwiches . |
| 13 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 14 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 15 | The Americans were setting the pace . |
| 16 | ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace . |
| 17 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |
| 18 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 19 | The case was to set a stamp on the decade , and one question from prosecuting counsel Mervyn Griffiths-Jones was to mark the period as precisely as Neville Chamberlain 's ‘ Peace in our time ’ had done in 1938 . |
| 20 | For example , his belief that the leader 's job was to set a policy and leave his subordinates to implement it — the belief that he had expressed at the War College in the 1920s ( see page 4 ) — got him into deep water in Algeria . |
| 21 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 22 | Thirdly the cry to the Father was to set the captives free from the Devil , who ensnares and traps what goodness is left in human beings . |
| 23 | On this field I found the best combination was to set the Silver Sabre at minimum discrimination and maximum sensitivity . |
| 24 | The first was tackled in a way that was to set the pattern — a devastating technique that the Prince has used time and again : bringing people together who would not normally meet . |
| 25 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |
| 26 | But , as things transpired , it was Nation 's eventual storyline , initially titled ‘ The Mutants ’ that was to set the seal on the way the science fiction stories would be handled within Doctor Who 's structure . |
| 27 | When an election for the state assembly was set a year ago , after five years of direct rule from New Delhi , the militants threatened to kill voters as well as candidates . |
| 28 | Instead , she stood still , looking in surprise at the gentle lined face above her , in which was set a pair of kind eyes of the brightest blue she had ever seen . |
| 29 | Petion caught up with Mortimer just as the Marines reached the wider tunnel , into one side of which was set a pair of doors which Benny 's description indicated led to the dock . |
| 30 | Brazilian diamonds were used to define the main bands , a fine Indian diamond was set at the middle , a Ceylonese sapphire appeared above the globe and over all was set a cross of pink diamonds . |