Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It meant the pound was set free to float to find its own value in world markets . |
| 3 | The terms on which the peasantry were set free perpetuated in new forms many of the obstacles to economic growth and social change characteristic of serfdom . |
| 4 | To set the earth revolving around the sun was to set all hell on the move . |
| 5 | Police reported ‘ a huge number of dead ’ as a vast area of the suburb was set ablaze . |
| 6 | The record was set 16 years ago by David Sandiman , who was then 17 . |
| 7 | The furnaces were set lower still , below the hypocaust floor . |
| 8 | The bank was set alight 20 years ago and continues to smoulder . |
| 9 | Waiting in the court were two officers with extradition warrants in case the couple were set free . |
| 10 | The Brethren of the Order were set free to go to Kolossi . |
| 11 | They demanded that the Shah , who had fled from Iran and who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA , should be sent back for trial before the hostages were set free . |
| 12 | At last a very rare event occurred : I had a couple of days off , and the weather was set fair for flying . |