Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The projects were set out in a pamphlet with the alluring title , We Can Conquer Unemployment : 350,000 men were to be employed on road-building , 60 , 000 on housing , 60,000 on telephone development and 62,000 on electrical development . |
| 2 | The result was that the story was set aside for the time being . |
| 3 | The verdicts were set aside on 25 December by means of a law passed on 23 December empowering the President to quash any decision of the Special Court . |
| 4 | The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | By statistical analysis of his surveys he showed that the megaliths were set out to a common unit of measurement , the megalithic yard of 0.83 m. , not in simple circles but in circular arcs centred on right-angled triangles . |
| 6 | In 1822 he won the competition for rebuilding London Bridge but the result was set aside in favour of the design by John Rennie [ q.v. ] ; and the principal feature of his career , for which he gained notice on the Continent as well as in England , was to be his speciality as a designer of large covered market buildings . |
| 7 | The programme was set up in 1987 and named in memory of two employees — Ben Hajadi , an engineer who died in a car accident , and Solomon , who lost his life in a helicopter crash . |
| 8 | The deal was set up by Ghazi Kenaan , Syria 's head of security in Beirut , who naturally took his cut off the top . |
| 9 | In due course the test was set up in England . |
| 10 | The committee was set up under the terms of a voluntary agreement . |
| 11 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 14 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 15 | The rails were set flush with the concrete and he negotiated them carefully . |
| 16 | The IITP was set up in July last year and launched last October . |
| 17 | The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust |
| 18 | Inspired by Professor Isaacs , the group was set up through the University of Birmingham , within the Department of Geriatric Medicine . |
| 19 | One contender is the product that the SQL Access Group was formed to produce : the group was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 20 | The group was set up in 1986 after a proposal at one of the regular — though often far apart — meetings of the four main Church leaders by Church of Ireland Primate Archbishop Robin Eames , and seconded by the late Catholic Primate Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich . |
| 21 | The fellowship was set up in memory of Dr Ralph Stoody and Dr Arthur West who worked in Methodist public relations and information for more than thirty years . |
| 22 | The fellowship was set up in 1977 and is sponsored by William Grant and Sons , distillers of Glenfiddich malt whisky . |
| 23 | The outing was set up by her former Tory MP , the late Richard Holt , who also fixed it for her to take her first flight — an 80-minute trip over the Bay of Biscay in Concorde — when she was 109 . |
| 24 | The Foundation was set up in September this year by Coutts and Co , Zurich . |
| 25 | Paul O'Gorman died in February 1987 at the age of 14 and the Foundation was set up in his memory . |
| 26 | Kevin Price gave us a glimpse of what was to follow with a clever break and when the ball was set up from the resulting ruck , Paul Flood was equally successful with a drop goal . |
| 27 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 28 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 29 | The aquarium was set up like this for two weeks . |
| 30 | Andrew Heaton , of Wigan , whose son , Paul , died in a road accident at the age of 15 , said : ‘ The organisation was set up in London last February and its services are now open to everyone . |