Example sentences of "[noun sg] was set [prep] [art] " 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 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 3 | Her mouth was set in a stubborn line , and she was scowling . |
| 4 | The brief dew on his lashes , that had caught the thin early rays of the risen sun , was dry enough now , his mouth was set in a rigid line . |
| 5 | The lines from his nose to his mouth were deeper , his mouth was set in a grim line and his eyes were bleak , or perhaps her memory was at fault … but she knew it was n't ; she knew every inch of his face . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At the same time , milk yields had to be substantially increased and sustainable and the scene was set for a revolution in breeding and for the development of most of the modern breeds . |
| 8 | The scene was set for a confrontation which , because of the simultaneous peaking of unrest over the food question , threatened to bring not only a few militant engineers , but whole working-class communities into direct action against the continuation of the war . |
| 9 | With actress Jackie , 47 , the Hollywood party scene was set for a quiet chat and a bottle of champagne — maybe a magnum . |
| 10 | Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece . |
| 11 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 12 | The scene was set for a Russian calamity . |
| 13 | Once Lothar had again spurned his brothers ' messengers , and come southwards from Aachen to the Moselle , apparently seeking battle , the scene was set for a final showdown . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 16 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out . |
| 21 | In all sixteen teams had made it through to this stage and with a full house the scene was set for an evening of top quizzing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The scene was set in a cabin on the boat with two men lone Fernandell and a beautiful Tahitian girl wearing only a grass skirt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains . |
| 26 | The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars . |
| 27 | The sun was setting behind the black rocks , and the sea was a blaze of luminous colour . |
| 28 | The second ad was set in a courtroom and described our new product ‘ Balanced Banking ’ and had the message that , with our automatic transfer , customers ‘ money was always in the right place to earn more interest . |
| 29 | Lunch was set on the terrace , as he 'd promised , and Luce let him draw out a chair for her . |
| 30 | 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 . |