Sentence examples for was once set from inspiring English sources

The power station was once set to be a theme park of industrial heritage, complete with floating zeppelins and a replica of the Crystal Palace.

A scooter was once set alight on the artificial wicket and in 2011 play was almost banned after a neighbour's Porsche was hit by a ball.

Disney allowed rumours of a Boba Fett spin-off to circulate not so long ago – there have been suggestions this is the abandoned Star Wars movie that Chronicle's Josh Trank was once set to direct.

LOCAL LORE * Downtown São Paulo was once set to be the site for the tallest building in the world, a 108-story pyramid-shaped structure financed by the Maharishi Global Development Fund, which is linked to the mystic Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Kennedy-Macfoy, who was once set to become a police officer but left the Hendon police training academy after his mother became ill with cancer in 2005, has said he hopes his complaint will make police think twice before stereotyping black men.

For pressure vessels and some structures, this allowable or design stress was once set at a quarter of the ultimate tensile strength, but later this was changed to two-thirds of the yield stress.

Taxes were once set by a committee that guessed what each person owed.

But because many Internet product prices were once set beneath cost to lure new customers, the easiest and most obvious step has been to bring those prices back to the real world.

The garters of Stranger Knights and Ladies were once set with several jewels.

The stars of Stranger Knights and Ladies were once set with several jewels.

Several other movies, including "Foxcatcher," "Grace of Monaco" and "The Immigrant," all of which were once set to debut this year, have been delayed to 2014.