Example sentences of "it was set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 2 | It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one . |
| 3 | His car was vandalised several times and he was forced to move his business after it was set on fire . |
| 4 | It was set on various slopes . |
| 5 | She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground . |
| 6 | When David overcame the Ammonites , we are told ‘ he took the crown of the king off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were priceless stones in it ; and it was set on David 's head ’ . |
| 7 | Our Gîte was lovely , it was set on legs , high up off the ground . |
| 8 | Canongate had its own Tolbooth , which has survived because it was set into the building line instead of blocking the thoroughfare . |
| 9 | It could not be taken along with poor relief , and those with criminal records were excluded ; it was only available at seventy , not sixty ; and it was set at a very mean level , a mere five shillings , below the bare minimum which Seebohm Rowntree calculated was then needed for subsistence . |
| 10 | $28,500 million ( 4.2 per cent of GDP ) , and for 1991/92 it was set at Can . |
| 11 | It was set beside an ornamental lake which was decorated by tumbling rocks , an island grotto and a waterfall , all lit by gas lamps . |
| 12 | He would n't pay good money because it was set with spinels instead of rubies , so the man took it back . ’ |
| 13 | It was set with a full English breakfast — well , she had told Michele she was always hungry — and while she poured herself some coffee and began on the bacon and eggs she recalled their first meeting . |
| 14 | Jonas recalls : ‘ … just as the Maryland crossed the coast preparatory to landing at Luqa , it was set upon by six Messerschmitts . |
| 15 | This enabled him to bring together the Judaism of his upbringing and the Roman Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in which it was set in Montreal ; the former dominating of course . |
| 16 | It was set in a trim garden girdled by white painted paling ; if not God 's cottage , certainly not his manor . |
| 17 | ‘ His body was going rigid just like it was set in concrete . |
| 18 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 19 | One petal held a beautiful , almost translucent pear-shaped dewdrop and it was set in a crystal vase that looked as substantial as a spider 's web . |
| 20 | The blurb said it was set in Bombay . |
| 21 | It was set in the middle of a corn field , and she turned between the tall stalks of corn and followed the track up to the barn . |
| 22 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 23 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 24 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy . |
| 25 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and erm it was the first one I went to , but I must say that of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I 've felt most erm comfortable and happy in . |
| 26 | It was set around a complete quadrangle , and built of rusticated stone . |