Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 2 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 3 | A further 100 seats were set aside for members to be appointed proportionally among political parties winning at least 5 per cent of the vote , including 20 reserved for overseas Chinese . |
| 4 | Four aides-de-camp were appointed and apartments in the Tuileries were set aside for bedroom , study and play room . |
| 5 | Two rooms in the hotel were set aside for children . |
| 6 | Extra appointments could be financed by the court 's customers paying higher charges when cases were set down for trial . |
| 7 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 8 | Mr Harris , 51 , and his wife were setting out for church in Lisburn , Co Antrim . |
| 9 | The date for the trial of Orchin , Richmond and McCready was set eventually for mid-February 1974 , sixteen months after their arrests . |
| 10 | The erm management agency that was set up for tornado was structured and manned for that specific task . |
| 11 | In particular , finding the other " nasty " number changes nothing — the challenge was set just for fun . |
| 12 | In 1988 about one case in 19 was set down for trial and for every 94 writs issued one case was determined by trial . |
| 13 | Mr Chris Clayton , an electronics and electrical engineer , spent an hour quizzing Dr. Male on Thursday , which along with yesterday ( Fri ) was set aside for objectors to cross examine a panel of NGC witnesses . |
| 14 | Certainly workshop space was set aside for women who are involved in the Labour Party . |
| 15 | The event raised £1m , most of which was set aside for investment in a trust fund . |
| 16 | White House officials played down the revolutionary tenor of Reagan 's comments , saying that no new infusion of money was set aside for lasers , only that a ‘ reorganisation ’ of the new disparate research projects is underway . |
| 17 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 18 | Sigarup was setting out for home . |
| 19 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |