Example sentences of "were set the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iraqis argued that if the USA were to set the date for the Bush-Aziz meeting , Iraq should have been allowed to choose the date of the Baker-Saddam meeting . |
| 2 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 3 | It is a particularly successful version compared with those produced by other pupils in the group who were set the task . |
| 4 | Teams representing a cross-section of housing interests were set the task of building a sandy estate incorporating a housing mix of family and old folks ' homes . |
| 5 | Between the archers were set the formations of pikemen and swordsmen . |
| 6 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 7 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 8 | The Americans were setting the pace . |
| 9 | ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace . |
| 10 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |
| 11 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |