Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] set aside [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants .
2 A row of buses waited outside the station to take the racegoers away to a variety of outlying motels , and a long new coach with darkly tinted windows was set aside for the owners .
3 Certain lands were set aside for the upkeep of religious and charitable foundations — the vakifs .
4 Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years .
5 In May 1965 £100 from the Society Stewards ' accounts was set aside as the beginning of a Building Fund , the purpose of which was either to extend the existing halls or to build new ones .
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