Example sentences of "was [adv] set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
2 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
3 | The National Curriculum English Working Group was formally set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
4 | The group was hardly set back at all by the major extinction at the end of the Cretaceous , and has never been more varied than it is today . |
5 | The SDA was initially set up in 1975 ‘ to provide a regional dimension to complement the UK-wide sectoral interventionism of the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) ’ ( Moor , 1986 , p. 8 ) . |