Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 2 | ‘ Hygienic milk depots ’ were set up by local authorities ( the first in St. Helens in 1899 ) to provide sterile milk for bottle-fed babies , although the standard of hygiene even of this milk was sometimes dubious . |
| 3 | This was a pattern to be followed when UDCs were set up in other areas in succeeding years . |
| 4 | Inquiries were set up in both cases , while Haughey announced on Sept. 22 that a serious fraud agency was to be established . |
| 5 | The fame of Aÿ was at its peak , and its wines were set apart from other growths ; as beautifully understated by Paulmier in his treatise De Vino et Pomaceo ( Paris , 1588 ) , Aÿ was ‘ the ordinary drink of kings and princes ’ . |
| 6 | The talks were held at the CPF site and included issues which were set forth in four documents , all of them unanimously approved by community representatives and by BPXC . |
| 7 | The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind : |
| 8 | A regulatory body , OFGAS , was set up with similar responsibilities to OFTEL . |
| 9 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |
| 10 | It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ The Ulster Resistance Movement was set up by loyalist politicians , and it 's their guns that are now killing innocent people . ’ |
| 12 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 13 | Quite sure that you 'll find in the end that I 'm right and it was set up by murdering bog-trotters . |
| 14 | It was set up by three sisters with funds from their family 's whisky business . |
| 15 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 16 | DSD was set up by 600 enterprises in response to legislation requiring industry to collect and recycle the packaging it produces . |
| 17 | In May 1835 , the relieving officer of the new Chailey Union was set on by thirty men in Ringmer , demanding ‘ money or blood ’ ; they got their relief in cash instead of the food tickets he offered . |
| 18 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In theory , it was set off by two boys who stole a can of soft drink from a third boy . |
| 21 | He still retained property in Dudley , being the largest payer of poor rates there in 1649 ; apart from houses in the town , his land at Netherton Hall nearby was set down at 195¾ acres . |