Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 4 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 5 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 6 | The committee was set up in the wake of the Cleveland child sex abuse inquiry to implement the National Health Service and Community Care Act . |
| 7 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 8 | The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements . |
| 9 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 10 | The long trestle tables were set out in the meadow and garden lights strung out in the trees , and soon the diners began to arrive . |
| 11 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 12 | When he was well enough , a makeshift court was set up in the hospital for a 30-minute hearing into which Broderick hobbled on crutches . |
| 13 | The Orkney Christian Fellowship was set up in the mid-1980s by a former Church of Scotland Minister , Alan Cowieson , who had caused division amongst a number of families while he was still Minister of the Evie , Rendall and Firth Parish . |
| 14 | The role was an innovative one , and its initial scope was set out in the 1985 job specification ( Leeds City Council 1985c ) . |
| 15 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 16 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 17 | Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November . |
| 18 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 19 | A right wing military Government was set up in the South as a result of the peace conference was convened at Geneva in 1954 . |
| 20 | In 1776 twelve schools of this kind were set up in the French provinces , largely in an effort to cope with the military pretensions of the poorer nobility . |
| 21 | They are not — it was a working document from officials ; Ministers ' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill . |
| 22 | Other areas of the establishment were infiltrated by fascists , and groups were set up in the Civil Service and in several educational centres and public schools , including the Universities of London and Birmingham , Stowe School , and Winchester , Beaumont and Worksop Colleges . |
| 23 | The precautions that should be taken to avoid this situation were set out in the section on consecutive spill , page 186 . |
| 24 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 25 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 26 | The aim of the book was set out in the preface ( which , unlike many items in these plans , was actually written ) . " |
| 27 | The background to cuts was set out in the 1976 White paper on public Expenditure ( Cmnd 6393 ) : ‘ Popular expectations for improved public services and welfare programmes have not been matched by growth in output or by willingness to forgo improvements in private living standards in favour of these programmes . ’ |
| 28 | There are more than 12 million pictures cataloguing what must be every major news story since the agency was set up in the 30's . |
| 29 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 30 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |