Example sentences of "[noun] were set [adv prt] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " Green Con " awards were set up in 1989 to highlight bogus claims to environmental worthiness made by business . |
| 2 | Special squads were set up in 1976 against what the Daily Mirror called " Britain 's army of dole queue swindlers " . |
| 3 | As so defined by the Home Secretary ( Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe ) these tasks were set out in 1952 as follows : |
| 4 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts . |
| 5 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |