Example sentences of "was set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the fact that the bereavement sum of £3,500 is arbitrary and was set five years ago . |
| 2 | If t is odd , then was set at the end of the previous period and was set two periods earlier . |
| 3 | Its financing was switched from levies on member states to the Community 's own resources , and it was set two broad objectives : firstly , to facilitate the employment adjustment resulting from Community policies , and secondly , to help overcome the structural problems experienced by certain regions or target groups , i.e. migrant workers , young job-seekers , women and the handicapped . |
| 4 | Truck after truck was set ablaze and each fire acted as a homing beacon for more enemy aircraft . |
| 5 | A COFFIN containing the body of a father-of-five was set ablaze in a garden yesterday as a family feud raged out of control . |
| 6 | Police reported ‘ a huge number of dead ’ as a vast area of the suburb was set ablaze . |
| 7 | Instead , the pass mark was set higher for girls ! |
| 8 | The record was set 16 years ago by David Sandiman , who was then 17 . |
| 9 | The head put a few notes on a pad and Nails was set free , leaving the two teachers puzzled . |
| 10 | Here at the bottom of the sky , I went with him in imagination by the rocks of the mind 's shore and I saw that the sky was thin and could not hold and my mind was set free . |
| 11 | It meant the pound was set free to float to find its own value in world markets . |
| 12 | But she was set free as a report was prepared for the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 13 | His release came only eight days after another American hostage , Robert Polehill was set free . |
| 14 | When she got back to the living-room the fire had been replenished , and a small table was set ready for them to eat . |
| 15 | A precedent was set last year , when Electrolux won an " ozone-friendly " fridge competition which required no chlorofluorocarbons and used only half the energy of conventional designs . |
| 16 | The previous record of 101.900mph was set last year by American Al Unser , also in a qualifying round . |
| 17 | I suppose it is just possible that Hippodameia was set next her father , Sterope on the other side ( cross-linking the wings , like the archers in the east pediment at Aegina , above , p. 45 ) , and Pausanias was wrong in this point too . |
| 18 | The Trajan Column was built by the Greek architect Apollodorus of Damascus , like the rest of the Trajan Forum , and was set next to the basilica there in A.D. 114 . |
| 19 | Whilst the poll tax in Kensington was set some 48% above government estimates , Institute of Public Finance figures suggest that average household bills would be a quarter lower than under the rates . |
| 20 | It was a small timber building against the back edge of the pavement on land belonging to the Crystal Palace authorities and was set level with the scissors crossover now installed at the terminus . |
| 21 | During the festivities a hastily built bonfire was set alight in the middle of the market place , and an equally hastily assembled replica of the Japanese Emperor was burnt to a cinder on top of it . |
| 22 | When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight . |
| 23 | The Wishwa Parishad Hindu temple in Bolton , Greater Manchester , was slightly damaged when inflammable liquid was set alight . |
| 24 | A HINDU temple became the latest target for religious violence yesterday when it was set alight in the early hours . |
| 25 | The bank was set alight 20 years ago and continues to smoulder . |
| 26 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 27 | On the night the car was set alight , said Mr Pascoe , with Mr Stockle and Mrs Leyshon tied up inside and pushed off the cliff , she was terrified . |
| 28 | This Dutch barn near Banbury was set alight last September . |
| 29 | This afternoon security men were wiring up the holes caused when a hedge bordering the planned clinic was set alight . |
| 30 | The back of the neighbouring house was set alight |