Example sentences of "a [noun] be set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A camp was set up in the Bois de Lapiérouse . |
| 2 | Immediately after the elections a subcommittee was set up by the Legislative Assembly to study the proposals , but progress was for the time being halted , after objections from the Chinese government , as reported in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 21 , 1989 . |
| 3 | In resisting the sideways forces the daggerboard starts to behave like a sail and a force is set up between the high and low pressure sides of the foil ( F1 ) . |
| 4 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 5 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 6 | The king agreed to most of the measures demanded by the commons , and a council was set up with Archbishop Stratford and the Earl of Huntingdon acting as chief councillors , assisted by the Earls of Lancaster and Warenne . |
| 7 | A disclaimer is set out at 1103.2 . |
| 8 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |
| 9 | After an initiative by JWT , a committee was set up under former Treasury mandarin Sir Leon Pliatzky to examine production practices and to recommend action to control cost inflation . |
| 10 | Suffice to say that it became evident fairly soon that the existing monetary techniques of regulation were not sufficiently effective , and in 1957 a committee was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inquire into the working of the monetary and credit system in the UK . |
| 11 | In a similar manner to the interview analysis technique , a record was set up on the database for each activity using the numerical codes as an identifier , and a second field used to type in all information needed or produced by that activity . |
| 12 | A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held . |
| 13 | A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts . |
| 14 | A shop was set up in Tottenham named ‘ Stardust Jewellers . ’ |
| 15 | An example of such a guarantee is set out at 1106.6 . |
| 16 | In the centre a fountain was set up in 1797 , with a statue by F. X. Lederer , an allegory of fruit-growing and viticulture . |
| 17 | China appealed to the League of Nations for support against the Japanese occupation and in December 1931 a commission was set up under Lord Lytton to investigate the situation . |
| 18 | Even in the Ottoman empire a commission was set up in 1885 to examine candidates for entry to Turkish diplomacy . |
| 19 | Just as a stylesheet is set up for text so it is possible to create a basic colour palette using either the HLS ( Hue , Lightness , Saturation ) , CMYB ( Cyan , Magenta , Yellow , Black ) or RGB ( Red , Blue , Green ) models . |
| 20 | A fund was set up for its restoration , but before the work could even be started the campanile collapsed . |
| 21 | For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience . |
| 22 | The project should be discussed by the school librarian and the teachers to examine a ) what is being taught b ) what skills pupils are expected to acquire c ) what aspects of information handling are involved d ) at what stage of the project will pupils use the microcomputer e ) what information the pupils will gain from the microcomputer and how this information will be used In Bridge of Don Academy in Aberdeen , a project was set up by the school librarian and the modern studies teacher who was teaching a class of third-year pupils on the topic of " Conflict and the protection of the environment " . |
| 23 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |
| 24 | The sound of a glass being set down on a table , then a door closing . |
| 25 | A stall was set up in Liverpool 's Church Street today to ask the public to sign the national TUC petition to save the British Coal Industry . |
| 26 | A legation was set up in Berlin in 1837 and another in St Petersburg twenty years later . |
| 27 | But the god whose sleep had been disturbed was not yet appeased , and after the unfairness of indiscriminate punishment had been discussed , a system was set up in which some women avoided childbirth by entering religious orders , while others lost infants through disease , thus limiting the population . |
| 28 | Clearly if a trust is set up for beneficiaries , for example , children of the settlor who were not involved in or even aware of its creation , they would not be associated persons . |
| 29 | After a visit by the secretary of state to the estate in 1982 , a trust was set up with backing from the local authority ( Knowsley ) , the Abbey National Building Society and Barclays Bank . |
| 30 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |