Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 2 | Almost invariably , I ended up each year in front of the Star Chamber of ministers who were set up under the chairmanship of Willie Whitelaw to try to sort out the differences which remained between ministers and the Chief Secretary . |
| 3 | The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies . |
| 4 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 5 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
| 6 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 7 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 8 | Having established that they had no signs of any fatigue cracks on the rear spar chord , the left and right stabilisers from two different aircraft were set up on the test rig . |
| 9 | Many new shipping companies formed in the late 1800's were set up on the strength of the coal markets . |
| 10 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
| 11 | Sure enough , a second ray-gun and clock , identical to the first , were set up against the back wall . |
| 12 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 13 | Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city . |
| 14 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 15 | Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies . |
| 16 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 17 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 18 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 19 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 22 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 23 | They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees . |
| 24 | To ensure compliance by motorists , standards for 30 km/h streets were set out by the Ministry of Transport . |
| 25 | They are not — it was a working document from officials ; Ministers ' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill . |
| 26 | The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements . |
| 27 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 28 | The long trestle tables were set out in the meadow and garden lights strung out in the trees , and soon the diners began to arrive . |
| 29 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 30 | These were set out in the code of practice issued under the Environmental Protection Act . |