Example sentences of "[noun sg] were set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below us the broad terraces of Hatshepsut 's temple were set into the curving amphitheatre of the cliffs . |
| 2 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 3 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |
| 4 | When shortages of equipment , powder , bombs and food were set alongside the shortage of men , the prospect of eventual victory receded still further . |
| 5 | A wooden doll was made or found to contain her bones ; and round it gold plates and gold wire were set in the ninth century . |