Example sentences of "was set [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There was now a captive market for British films , and that market would expand steadily through the ten years the act was set to remain on the statute book .
2 Finding the work ‘ quite fun ’ , from then on his commercial career was set to remain in the media industry , moving in 1980 to be director of Pearson 's information and entertainment division then , in 1984 , becoming managing director of Virgin group where , operationally , he was responsible for the record , video , entertainment and retail businesses ( including the group 's Megastores ) .
3 Lastly , the number of potential first-time buyers in their 20s was set to fall over the next two decades , reducing demand for homes .
4 He was set to go in the autumn , but he did not run away from that one — he got the editors of five friendly newspapers to run away for him .
5 He financed a short film , The Space Movie , in which Oldfield 's music was set to footage from the American space programme .
6 This economic lodestar was set to achieve for the UK a reduction in interest rates , a break in the long-ingrained inflationary tendencies that have afflicted the UK economy since the war , and to increase the momentum of developing trade links between the UK and the EC .
7 This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected .
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