Example sentences of "[was/were] set back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 2 | Again the fundamental ideological differences between East and West were confirmed , further steps towards détente were set back and , whatever de Gaulle 's hopes , Soviet predominance in eastern Europe was confirmed . |
| 3 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 4 | ‘ If you mean the Prince thinks that we 'd be better off if the clock were set back a couple of hundred years , ’ Caroline said , ‘ the answer 's yes . ’ |
| 5 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 6 | In due course Nones was set back three hours to midday , and this is the origin of the word ‘ noon ’ . |
| 7 | Billy 's cottage was set back off the road , behind a neat little hedge . |
| 8 | The modernisation programme was set back , with China reverting to the policies of class struggle in a diluted form . |
| 9 | Her door was set back so that she did n't see him until he was past the cars in the centre of the courtyard . |
| 10 | His plan to promote national reconciliation was set back further by his pardoning on Dec. 29 by presidential decree of the military leaders of the " dirty war " of the 1970s . |
| 11 | I guessed that it was set back in the farmhouse , unless he had some sort of remote control toy . |
| 12 | In the next instant Travis was rising and she was set back on her feet as he put some distance between them . |
| 13 | I mean you want to see his house I mean it was set back off the road and you see the people pull ploughing |