Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] set [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such demands were given urgency by the publication in 1915 of Maternity : letters from working women which described experiences of motherhood in harrowing terms ; they were also to set the agenda for the 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act and interwar policy . |
| 2 | Corvan 's achievement , then — with a narrow stock of materials and against a background of retrenchment , in which the bourgeoisie 's musical values , like its money , were increasingly setting the framework of socio-musical relationships — was to articulate those materials to the needs of his own particular audience . |
| 3 | Her manner said that this was a thing of great indifference to her , but that she was just setting the record straight . |
| 4 | On the opposite side of the room another fire burned brightly behind the high table , and a page was carefully setting the finger bowl in its place . |
| 5 | The effect was partly to set the poet amongst the roots of a wood or forest , until , as Mortimer Cropper had pointed out , one realised that the background was one of those compartmentalised Wardian cases , in which the Victorians grew plants in controlled environments , or created self-sustaining ponds , in order to study the physiology of plants and fishes . |
| 6 | And not just in Britain either , though it was now setting the pace - or at least contributing its own in all these fields . |