Example sentences of "was [adv] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was not setting in motion the puppets of the past to destroy them . |
| 4 | The same question was usually set in two versions , one multiple choice and one where the pupil had to supply an answer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A study by military experts was immediately set in motion . |
| 9 | Not that he wished any harm to Rose , and it was n't as if she would be on her own because , being the wife of Peter , and he the stable man , she was well set in their cottage . |
| 10 | Capra 's film was to be one of the most successful , acclaimed , and important films in the depression period because it was firmly set in contemporary America , but not in an America preoccupied with social problems . |
| 11 | Despite an undoubted attempt to enlarge rather than curtail the sphere of effective papal control — an attempt that on the surface at least succeeded again and again in particular areas from Holland to Brazil — the wider agenda was seldom set in Rome . |
| 12 | At twenty-two , it seemed , Viola was too set in her ways for him . |
| 13 | In retirement , Muccio recalled that Rhee was very intelligent , determined and assertive ; he had reached the top at a late age and was too set in his ways , his attitude having been determined by his lengthy period in exile , amid the seemingly forlorn struggle to save Korea from Japanese colonialism . |