Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 2 | A stolen car which was set alight at Acklam Rugby Club , Saltersgill Avenue , Middlesbrough , damaged part of the pitch . |
| 3 | By the fifth and sixth centuries they were set adjacent to larger churches , usually in the atrium facing the narthex . |
| 4 | When we got to University of East Anglia we were set seven tasks . |
| 5 | When Labour founded the National Health Service we lifted a great burden from the shoulders of ordinary families who were set free from the financial perils of ill health . |
| 6 | Environment Minister Emil Salim said that the 500 firms , spread over 11 of the 27 provinces of Indonesia , have failed to comply with water effluent standards which were set two years ago . |
| 7 | Note the wage rate at any point in time ( t ) is made up of an average of wages which were set one period earlier and those set two periods before . |