Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the fifth and sixth centuries they were set adjacent to larger churches , usually in the atrium facing the narthex . |
| 2 | The furnaces were set lower still , below the hypocaust floor . |
| 3 | Environment Minister Emil Salim said that the 500 firms , spread over 11 of the 27 provinces of Indonesia , have failed to comply with water effluent standards which were set two years ago . |
| 4 | Note the wage rate at any point in time ( t ) is made up of an average of wages which were set one period earlier and those set two periods before . |
| 5 | Thirty official buildings , 17 post offices and six buses were set ablaze in the period . |
| 6 | Several more aircraft were set ablaze , and as they drove back on to the road without a shot having been fired against them , Stirling and Mayne were cock-a-hoop . |
| 7 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 8 | In French provincial cities bales of straw and tyres were set ablaze at road junctions . |
| 9 | A number of buildings were damaged by looting and arson , and numerous vehicles were set ablaze . |
| 10 | Buildings on six farms were set ablaze during last night . |
| 11 | At this point a servant appeared bearing a rough tray on which were set three horn beakers . |
| 12 | It was from this hippodrome that the four horses now on the façade of S. Mark 's Cathedral in Venice were originally taken ; they were set high above the track in Istanbul . |
| 13 | Most of the walls were topped by a layer of concrete into which were set jagged pieces of glass from smashed bottles . |
| 14 | We were set different tasks to do eg getting across an area of grass which had poison on it . |
| 15 | In the middle of the bed , across its width , two substantial bolsters were set next to each other . |
| 16 | The wind and currents were set fair when the Hokule'a paddled away on that sunny afternoon in March . |
| 17 | But conditions were set fair for stable political and economic development . |
| 18 | Similarly , right hemisphere patients were inferior at reproducing by touch alone the angle at which two movable rods were set relative to each other ( De Renzi , Faglioni and Scotti 1971 ) . |
| 19 | Only two of the industries nationalized by Labour were set free — road haulage and ( temporarily as it turned out ) steel . |
| 20 | Waiting in the court were two officers with extradition warrants in case the couple were set free . |
| 21 | The Brethren of the Order were set free to go to Kolossi . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’ |
| 23 | He harrowed hell with the same spiritual vigour with which he had overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple , and the faithful dead were set free . |
| 24 | At the universities , the released students were treated like heroes and paraded around triumphantly in scenes probably akin to 1935 , when arrested students from ‘ December Ninth ’ were set free . |
| 25 | By the Statute of 1861 the 22 million serfs owned by private landlords were set free from personal bondage . |
| 26 | The terms on which the peasantry were set free perpetuated in new forms many of the obstacles to economic growth and social change characteristic of serfdom . |
| 27 | They demanded that the Shah , who had fled from Iran and who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA , should be sent back for trial before the hostages were set free . |
| 28 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 29 | When Labour founded the National Health Service we lifted a great burden from the shoulders of ordinary families who were set free from the financial perils of ill health . |
| 30 | Women & children were set free from slavery & the men unemployed from farming could move to mines & take up jobs which the women & children had previously filled . |