Example sentences of "was set [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grand Trunk Canal promoted by him and his merchant associate Thomas Bently was set afoot in 1766 after the Duke of Bridgewater had already moved the line of his Runcorn cut to meet up at its northern end and complete the joining of the Trent and Mersey . |
| 2 | Total expenditure was set provisionally at 67,000 million francs CFA and revenue at 39,000 million francs CFA . |
| 3 | More than Dm300 million was set aside for future environmental protection measures , and stocks were valued according to the ‘ last in , first out ’ principle , which cuts out paper profit ( and thus reduces taxable profit ) when prices rise . |
| 4 | Land was set aside for another ranch , and this was promptly invaded by vast herds of plains game when rain finally fell and grass grew . |
| 5 | The aim is to provide the kind of understanding necessary for improved policy analysis in the future and £100,000 a year was set aside for this programme . |