Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Thomson , eager to experience as many of these opportunities as possible , set off for Penang in 1862 .
2 When the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution expired in April 1990 , the former bicameral parliament set up at independence in 1980 was replaced by a new single-chamber parliament , the House of Assembly , with 150 members ( 120 elective , 10 traditional chiefs , eight provincial governors appointed by the President and 12 other presidential appointees ) .
3 On a different level the academy established at Woolwich in 1741 , the great engineering school set up at Mézières in 1748 , the combined artillery and engineer school created in Russia in 1756 , and a number of similar establishments , provided the armies of Europe with a greater fund of technical knowledge than they had hitherto possessed .
4 Unlike Blackburn , I have actually been a member of just such a ‘ new left grouping ’ , the ‘ Alternative 86 ’ Alliance ( of greens and reds ) set up in Paris in 1986 with just such an anti-sectarian aim in mind .
5 The best-known example of this , and probably the most ambitious , was the political academy set up in Paris in 1712 by the Marquis de Torcy .
6 The main speaker will be Cefin Campbell , director of Menter Cwm Gwendraeth , set up in Dyfed in 1989 .
7 The Accademia Reale set up in Turin in 1677 , the Noble Cadet Corps established in Saint Petersburg in 1731 , the Ecole Royale Militaire which came into existence in Paris in 1751 , the military academies established at Wiener-Neustadt in 1752 and Zamora in 1790 , were all essentially intended to prepare young nobles for a military career .
8 After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) .
9 A more lenient standard , set out on legislation in 1975 , permits judges ( at their discretion ) to admit as evidence almost any opinion from an ‘ expert witness ’ , defined as someone who is qualified ‘ by knowledge , skill , experience , training or education ’ to speak to a given subject .
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