Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland . |
| 2 | Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection . |
| 3 | To prevent seepage from the soil eroding the bottom part of the mud wall , a layer of fired bricks was set into the wall to separate the mud bricks from the foundation . |
| 4 | At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth . |
| 5 | But , after this , the scene was set for the 1936 Berlin Olympics where , as Richard Mandell points out : ‘ Racial policy permeated all aspects of German life in the Nazi era . |
| 6 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 7 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 8 | Then while the Sassanian dynasty was emerging in its turn , following the Parthians who had swept away the Seleucid regime that ruled both Mesopotamia and the lands farther east after the break-up of Alexander 's vast empire in the fourth century BC , the scene was set for the emergence of Islam . |
| 9 | With enthusiastic Board members , an experienced Registrar and a small staff , and the accumulated validation experience of the late 1960s and early 1970s , the scene was set for the acquisition of a major award in the field , and the continued development of business and management studies that we have seen . |
| 10 | But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks . |
| 11 | A calendar with a colour photograph of a snow scene was set between the framed painting of Lenin and the portrait of Andropov of the Politburo . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains . |
| 14 | The sun was setting behind the black rocks , and the sea was a blaze of luminous colour . |
| 15 | Lunch was set on the terrace , as he 'd promised , and Luce let him draw out a chair for her . |
| 16 | The cat was set among the pigeons in 1952 when , von Neumann notwithstanding , David Bohm constructed a specific example of a hidden variable theory which did agree precisely with conventional quantum mechanics in all its empirical predictions . |
| 17 | In June 1991 the government introduced a draft Pact of Progress , which controversially sought to tie wage rises to productivity ; a deadline for union agreement on the plan was set for the end of September [ see p. 38114 ] . |
| 18 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 21 | Hartlepool then comprised 6,000 people , no longer a simple fishing village since dock facilities had recently brought it into the coal-export and timber-import trades ; but Jackson 's sights were set on the adjacent hamlet of Stranton , with a population of 350 . |
| 22 | The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine . |
| 23 | A period of seven years was set as the publication cycle for new editions ; the sixteenth edition thus appeared on time in 1958 . |
| 24 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |
| 25 | Candles in jam-jars were set around the heap of boulders . |
| 26 | The cooking fires were lit and pots were set over the flames to boil . |
| 27 | The mooring posts from the tanks and from the lower pounds were set alongside the lock flight , possibly the only parts of the lift still doing duty at Foxton . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |
| 29 | John Matcham 's name was set by the printer and the ‘ woollcomber ’ pulled the press . |
| 30 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |