Example sentences of "was set [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the timetable which was set for the tasks of the project , and |
| 2 | A target of £3.5 million was set for the councils . |
| 3 | At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth . |
| 4 | Round the back , in the patio by the pool , a table was set with the remains of lunch . |
| 5 | The cat was set among the pigeons in 1952 when , von Neumann notwithstanding , David Bohm constructed a specific example of a hidden variable theory which did agree precisely with conventional quantum mechanics in all its empirical predictions . |
| 6 | The crucial boundary between what is ‘ Christian ’ and what is ‘ pagan ’ was set by the limits of official clerical tolerance . |
| 7 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |
| 8 | The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains . |