Example sentences of "[was/were] set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the verses were in fact small poems , and some were set to music . |
| 2 | A mechanical bush-clearing company was called in , but it soon became apparent that machines could not accomplish all that was required , and labourers from other tribes were set to work . |
| 3 | Hence gangs of navvies ( mainly Irish ) were set to work on the task of excavation and works ; they lived in mud huts , huts which would only offer the most primitive shelter from the elements . |
| 4 | I thought the two of you were set to — ‘ Angalo began . |
| 5 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 6 | So vast quantities of stone were stockpiled along the way , and gangs of territorials , perhaps 1,000 in all , were set to work around the clock filling in and levelling the holes as they formed . |
| 7 | Thus the real and imaginary parts of the atomic scattering factors for the ‘ derivative ’ at λ i were set to and respectively . |
| 8 | The house of Neill & Co. had patented their own , and since this was one of the offices that most whole-heartedly recruited women , a number of the women compositors at Neill 's in the 1870s were set to work the machines . |
| 9 | accepted that if the subsequent appeal to the House of Lords were set to one side , there might be grounds for a relisting on the basis that the Court of Appeal had departed from well-established practice in resolving but one of the grounds of appeal , leaving outstanding points of appeal on which submissions had been made . |
| 10 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 11 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 12 | This was allotted out to place in work five aged women , four young girls and one boy , who being able to work were set to spinning hemp . |
| 13 | A take note was issued allowing exploration to start at once and men were set to work in December of 1823 . |
| 14 | Old Kewlany and his mate , as mystified as anyone , were set to work elsewhere for the time being . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Standards were set to which all school premises had to conform . |
| 17 | If an error occurs within a procedure or function , the value of any PRIVATE variables will be the last value they were set to within the procedure or function which gave rise to the error . |
| 18 | At the same time ten battalions of Territorials were set to work building a new broad-gauge railway to Revigny . |
| 19 | Yet another inspector returning to Leicester with a degree in psychology was set to work in the force vehicle store counting tyres . |
| 20 | The magazine was set to be ‘ a new force in writing and criticism in Canada ’ ; based on Pound 's comment : ‘ CIV/n ( civilisation ) — not a one-man job . ’ |
| 21 | An influx of bright youngtalent was set to work under a dashing editor , Falklands hero Max Hastings , who occasionally took an independent , anti-government line . |
| 22 | I have a SWB IIA petrol and some time ago a slightly higher lift cam was fitted from Piper and the timing was set to Piper 's spec . |
| 23 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 24 | The carriage was set to KC throughout , but weaving yarn was not laid over the needles on every row . |
| 25 | The public , however , has a right to know , so a team of Punch researchers was set to work , quizzing fashion experts about the men whose very arrival at a wardrobe signals sartorial disaster . |
| 26 | She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver . |
| 27 | The camera was set to auto programme so the photographer only had to concentrate on focusing . |
| 28 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
| 29 | The elephant clock was set to twelve-thirty . |
| 30 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |