Example sentences of "[noun sg] was set [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The mask was set in an expression of abject sadness . |
| 4 | By then , the game was set in an exciting crescendo , Palace interrupting the openings contrived down the right by Mike Newell and Pat Nevin with breaks aimed at Wright 's speed and control . |
| 5 | Samaraweera cites Leonard Woolf 's novel The Village in the Jungle to support his characterization of the average litigant as ignorant of court procedure , but Woolf 's novel was set in an impoverished , dying and atypical village in the dry zone . |
| 6 | The whole endeavour was set in an international context , the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad . |
| 7 | All of this magical garden was set in an acre of tough , fibrous grass on which a boy with a curved knife squatted on his haunches while cropping the ‘ lawns ’ . |
| 8 | Last night 's mystery was set in an open prison so relaxed that you wondered if the female governor went round tucking up the inmates at night . |
| 9 | The stage was set for an exciting finale on a modified version of the men 's final . |