Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [was/were] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women & children were set free from slavery & the men unemployed from farming could move to mines & take up jobs which the women & children had previously filled . |
| 2 | I suppose it is just possible that Hippodameia was set next her father , Sterope on the other side ( cross-linking the wings , like the archers in the east pediment at Aegina , above , p. 45 ) , and Pausanias was wrong in this point too . |
| 3 | The head put a few notes on a pad and Nails was set free , leaving the two teachers puzzled . |
| 4 | In French provincial cities bales of straw and tyres were set ablaze at road junctions . |
| 5 | Bales of hay and tyres were set alight , damaging the entrance of one office . |
| 6 | The wind and currents were set fair when the Hokule'a paddled away on that sunny afternoon in March . |
| 7 | But conditions were set fair for stable political and economic development . |
| 8 | Truck after truck was set ablaze and each fire acted as a homing beacon for more enemy aircraft . |
| 9 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 10 | Staff at two industrial units on Teesside were evacuated when tyres were set alight at the rear of their premises . |