Example sentences of "was [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I spoke to Mrs. Olinton she said that Mr. Olinton was so set against Scouts and Guides that he would n't even let his own daughter , Jessica , join Brownies , although she wanted to . ’ |
| 2 | The scene was all set for a pitched battle . |
| 3 | With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening . |
| 4 | The man all cricket knows as Syd was all set for action … after a year long fight for fitness … and then on saturday in the gym fate struck again |
| 5 | The man all cricket knows as Syd was all set for action … after a year long fight for fitness … and then on saturday in the gym fate struck again |
| 6 | I was on level four , I' [ d rescued hostages , destroyed the nuclear reactor , and was all set to finally put an end to the madman . |
| 7 | Dolly was obviously set on being sociable for the whole evening . |
| 8 | However , this tablet was only set in the wall in 1456 , and is in conflict with an account written about events on 17 September 1387 . |
| 9 | There seems little doubt that he supplied the king 's war effort with raw iron , if not with actual munitions , and his fine was finally set at just under £5,000 , although after he had died intestate early in 1648 , his executors alleged that he and his estate had paid out over £13,000 in all . |
| 10 | Beset by rioting , strikes and murders since March , as students and citizens demanded , and were promised , political reform , Togo remained tense throughout May pending the planned national conference on its political future , which was finally set for June 10-20 . |
| 11 | The date for the long-awaited fourth PCC congress was finally set for Oct. 11 , 1991 . |
| 12 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 13 | The scene was already set for Charles to become a new Western Emperor . |
| 14 | The table was already set for high tea , with ham , bread and butter and a very yellow cake . |
| 15 | He was not setting in motion the puppets of the past to destroy them . |
| 16 | Robert Altman 's M*A*S*H* ( 1970 ) was ostensibly set during the Korean War but , with its overt anti-authoritarianism , anarchic humour and visceral horror , was expressing aversion towards the Vietnam War . |
| 17 | The scene for the election to the Constitutional Convention was formally set by the British Government when it published its White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " ( see above page 8 ) which was almost immediately followed by the passing of the Northern Ireland Act 1974 on 17 July . |
| 18 | The same question was usually set in two versions , one multiple choice and one where the pupil had to supply an answer . |
| 19 | It 's believed it was deliberately set upon by lurcher dogs . |
| 20 | As for him , his heart was still set on finding the sea-king 's palace , with its throne of silver and trumpets of pearl and the coral candles burning beneath the waves . |
| 21 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens , but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut 's tottering gable end , and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway . |
| 22 | She was still talking about the snake that lived under the water tank when Tom swung the wheel and purred rapidly up the hospital driveway , and if his face was still set in a grim frown and he did n't seem to be listening to her words at all , she should n't have minded , because the object of the exercise had been to entertain Faye , not him . |
| 23 | She was quickly set on fire by the destroyer HMS Somali and the LCAs came alongside the quay . |
| 24 | The pattern was clearly set by which the extension of secondary education , because it was free , would increase the pressure effect of the exam whatever form it took . |
| 25 | The world record for speed was probably set in the afternoon of 12 August 1966 , by the London Evening News , At 3. 19 pm a gunman on the run shot three policemen dead in West London . |
| 26 | Similarly , hearing increased in importance both for the information it gave about the environment in general , and for communication within the species ; hence the stage was also set for language to be born . |
| 27 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 28 | Ray Gasson 's barn was also set on fire , but things could have been worse . |
| 29 | Once Sheila was securely set towards the civil service as well , as if out of weakness or guilt Moran began courting her with vague , tentative offers ; if she were desperate to go to university they could still look into ways of how it could be managed and they would try to manage it somehow no matter how hard it was . |
| 30 | It 's , I mean he played very well DaSilva I think , but in a completely different mode to the first innings , he was purely set on trying to save the game , trying to battle with , I think he did n't bowl very well , had n't bowled very many short balls in the day and that was perhaps the first one he 's had to receive and er he was caught in two minds really . |