Example sentences of "[was/were] set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cooking fires were lit and pots were set over the flames to boil . |
| 2 | On other occasions , teachers commented that tasks without an obvious method of solution which were set to the intake year and also to other years were tackled better by the intake year in spite of the fact that they were younger . |
| 3 | They were set for the garlic and the prawns , if they made it quick . |
| 4 | However , on November 26th 1676 , six constables , four beadles and several others were set at the chapel doors in order to arrest Baxter . |
| 5 | Sculptural panels illustrating ‘ Engineering ’ , ‘ Agriculture ’ , ‘ Commerce ’ , ‘ Science ’ , and ‘ Trade ’ were set into the gables , and cameo busts of the directors of the company were placed in the main façade . |
| 6 | Candles in jam-jars were set around the heap of boulders . |
| 7 | When shortages of equipment , powder , bombs and food were set alongside the shortage of men , the prospect of eventual victory receded still further . |
| 8 | The mooring posts from the tanks and from the lower pounds were set alongside the lock flight , possibly the only parts of the lift still doing duty at Foxton . |
| 9 | Bunks were set against the walls , kerosene heaters gave instant heat , while electric kettles enabled tea or coffee to be made . |
| 10 | Standards were set within the firm rather than externally and so organisations were essentially static rather than dynamic . |
| 11 | The town gates were set in the walls where these principal thoroughfares made their exit . |
| 12 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 13 | The particular tribe among whom he was working couched their teaching in story form , and the main story-line was always the same — the events were set in the context of a journey , for they were a nomadic people . |
| 14 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
| 15 | Payments were set by the Warsaw Convention , which , executive director Geoffrey Lipman complains , is 60 years out of date , although the protection guidelines are still valid . |
| 16 | The group is also concerned that if , as currently proposed , internationally-harmonized food standards were set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission [ see SAFE report , below ] , quality would decline . |
| 17 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |
| 18 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 19 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 20 | the timetable which was set for the tasks of the project , and |
| 21 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 22 | Thus , the stage was set for the disappearance of the colleges of education as a separate sector of higher education . |
| 23 | By then , however , the stage was set for the rise of the true State . |
| 24 | No date was set for the trial . |
| 25 | No date was set for the referendum . |
| 26 | So the stage was set for the inquisition . |
| 27 | It was reported on Sept. 17 that the Federation of European Stock Exchanges had agreed to initiate a shared electronic market information service for the 200-300 largest companies in the new EC equity market , but no firm timetable was set for the move . |
| 28 | So with eight of the world 's top golfers within five shots of each other and eight different nationalities represented , the stage was set for the grandstand finish which Hammond Wilde had been dreaming about for the best part of a year . |
| 29 | Already there was a fledgling brewery at St. James 's Gate and the stage was set for the arrival of one who would sweep away the myth and mystery and bring instead the art and science of brewing to perfection . |
| 30 | A target of £3.5 million was set for the councils . |