Example sentences of "[noun] were set [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants .
2 Having established that they had no signs of any fatigue cracks on the rear spar chord , the left and right stabilisers from two different aircraft were set up on the test rig .
3 The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events .
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 rails were set flush with the concrete and he negotiated them carefully .
7 Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road .
8 The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements .
9 Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city .
10 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 .
11 Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee .
12 The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies .
13 Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies .
14 Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation .
15 Early in 1942 two committees were set up by the Central Housing Advisory Committee to report to the Minister of Health ( the minister responsible for housing ) on the question of post-war housing rebuilding .
16 They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 .
21 Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November .
22 Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London .
23 Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills .
24 Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act .
25 After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts .
26 The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 The precautions that should be taken to avoid this situation were set out in the section on consecutive spill , page 186 .
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