Example sentences of "were [adj] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day they were due to set off for France , Shanti had a swathe of her black curly hair bleached and dyed crimson . |
| 2 | We were all set up for it in Britain : a Labour government anti-nuclear movement swinging along on borrowed money with Carnaby Street and the Beatles — they were going to bring World Peace all by themselves — fat dumb and happy . |
| 3 | Formal groups were those set up by the management of an organization to undertake duties in the pursuit of organization goals . |
| 4 | Lifelong friend Stan Cardwell said that when youth hostels were first set up in 1930s , Mr Lear helped form a Darlington branch and often used the hostels in his cross country expeditions . |
| 5 | There is a traditional picture of the genesis of BT whose main lines depend , substantially , not on any direct evidence , but on the later recollections of Nietzsche 's sister , which were first set out in one volume of a biography of her brother published in 1897 . |