Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 2 | It was now necessary to be able to detect adulterants , and in October 1842 a laboratory ( the ancestor of the later Laboratory of the Government Chemist ) was set up at the excise department headquarters in Broad Street , London , staffed solely by George Phillips . |
| 3 | The company was set up at the height of the property boom . |
| 4 | The Arch of Trajan in Ancona ( A.D. 113 ) was set up at the harbour entrance astride a causeway . |
| 5 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 6 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 7 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 8 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |