Example sentences of "[was/were] set up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 2 | A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts . |
| 3 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 4 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |
| 5 | A committee of Privy Counsellors , under the chairmanship of Lord Radcliffe , was set up to ‘ review the arrangements which should govern the publication of memoirs by former ministers during the period of thirty years that official documents are subject to the provisions of the Public Records Act ’ . |