Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks . |
2 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
3 | The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine . |
4 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |
5 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
6 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
7 | ( The upper limit of normal for each measure was set at the 95th centile ) . |
8 | A wooden doll was made or found to contain her bones ; and round it gold plates and gold wire were set in the ninth century . |