Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] set in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film flatly denied that there was any problem with dolphin entanglements in drift-nets , saying that the nets were always set in the direction of the prevailing currents , and as marine mammals generally swam with the currents , entanglement was unlikely . |
| 2 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 3 | However , this tablet was only set in the wall in 1456 , and is in conflict with an account written about events on 17 September 1387 . |
| 4 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens , but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut 's tottering gable end , and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway . |
| 5 | The world record for speed was probably set in the afternoon of 12 August 1966 , by the London Evening News , At 3. 19 pm a gunman on the run shot three policemen dead in West London . |