Example sentences of "were set [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On other occasions , teachers commented that tasks without an obvious method of solution which were set to the intake year and also to other years were tackled better by the intake year in spite of the fact that they were younger . |
| 2 | They were set for the garlic and the prawns , if they made it quick . |
| 3 | However , on November 26th 1676 , six constables , four beadles and several others were set at the chapel doors in order to arrest Baxter . |
| 4 | Candles in jam-jars were set around the heap of boulders . |
| 5 | When shortages of equipment , powder , bombs and food were set alongside the shortage of men , the prospect of eventual victory receded still further . |
| 6 | The mooring posts from the tanks and from the lower pounds were set alongside the lock flight , possibly the only parts of the lift still doing duty at Foxton . |
| 7 | Standards were set within the firm rather than externally and so organisations were essentially static rather than dynamic . |
| 8 | The particular tribe among whom he was working couched their teaching in story form , and the main story-line was always the same — the events were set in the context of a journey , for they were a nomadic people . |
| 9 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
| 10 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |
| 11 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |