Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community Forests , funded by the Forestry and Countryside Commissions , were set up in 1990 on the outskirts of major cities . |
| 2 | However , in the event , Soviet regimes were set up in Estonia and Latvia in October 1917 , but were overthrown by German occupation . |
| 3 | Weekly group meetings were set up in Newham when five or six workers were on the payroll . |
| 4 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts . |
| 5 | Other important curriculum development centres were set up in Ghana ( 1967 ) and Zambia ( 1970 ) . |
| 6 | Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist . |
| 7 | On 28 June 1919 the Treaty was put into effect and plebiscites were set up in Warmia , Mazuria and Silesia to determine the exact areas of land to be allocated to Poland . |
| 8 | Lesbian and Gay-Men 's Sub-Committees were set up in such a way as to give a high level of representation to people from outside the council 's structure , and to ensure that their voices could be heard . |
| 9 | Excluding the lay fraternities , 280 private chantries were set up in London during the fourteenth century , the heyday of the movement . |
| 10 | Women 's Aid Centres were set up in Dublin and other major cities as I was preparing to leave Ireland . |
| 11 | Nine were set up in 1970 alone , and this rate was maintained through the decade of the 1970s , rising to fourteen in 1973 and dropping to seven in 1977 . |
| 12 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 13 | The numerous non-manufacturing subsidiaries ( such as travel agencies , restaurants and computer software firms ) that were set up in the late 1980s are most vulnerable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Peripheral day hospitals and day centres were set up in Malvern and Evesham . |
| 16 | Its UK headquarters , although still fairly embryonic in nature , were set up in 1990 in Chertsey , Surrey , to serve the European marketplace . |
| 17 | In the early sixties , two long-term chimpanzee projects were set up in Tanzania : Jane Goodall 's in the wooded savannah around the Gombe Stream Research Center , and Toshida Nishida 's in the Mahale Mountains , some 200km south . |
| 18 | Special squads were set up in 1976 against what the Daily Mirror called " Britain 's army of dole queue swindlers " . |
| 19 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 20 | Humanities computing centres were set up in Oxford , Liege , Tubingen and other places . |
| 21 | Local Marine Boards were set up in all main ports and a Shipping Master appointed by each to take administrative responsibility for masters ' and mates ' examinations and the business of engaging and discharging seamen under pain of penalty for " crimping " and other similar offences . |
| 22 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 23 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 24 | New Mental Health Tribunals were set up in each health region to deal with any complaints arising from compulsory admission procedures . |
| 25 | This was a pattern to be followed when UDCs were set up in other areas in succeeding years . |
| 26 | Local centres , professionally staffed , were set up in many LEAs to act as focuses for the dissemination of each project 's materials . |
| 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 were set up in close succession by the Secretary of State for Scotland to study the curriculum ( Munn ) and assessment ( Dunning ) in the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools ; they kept in close touch with each other throughout their deliberations ; and they presented their reports with complementary recommendations at the same time . |
| 29 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 30 | Committees for the Defence of the Revolution were set up in villages and workplaces to mobilize local support . |