Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 2 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 3 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
| 4 | The Scottish Office produced a manual and a guide to legislation and support structures were set up by central government and education authorities to provide information and to respond to board queries . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 7 | Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was a pattern to be followed when UDCs were set up in other areas in succeeding years . |
| 10 | In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light . |
| 11 | These dispositions and their object — that of bringing Iran 's crude-oil export system to a standstill — were set out with ample detail and forceful purpose by the country 's leadership . |
| 12 | It was set up under Educational Support Grant funding in 1986 , but was financed by the City Council when the grant expired in April 1989 . |
| 13 | This arrangement was used for the BBC ( the corporation ) in 1927 when it was set up under Royal Charter , and for the commercial broadcasting sector from 1954 onwards . |
| 14 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |
| 15 | A regulatory body , OFGAS , was set up with similar responsibilities to OFTEL . |
| 16 | The quota system , which critics claim permits poached ivory to enter legal trade , was set up as African elephant numbers fell from an estimated 1.3 million in 1979 to about 600,000 today . |
| 17 | It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ The Ulster Resistance Movement was set up by loyalist politicians , and it 's their guns that are now killing innocent people . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Quite sure that you 'll find in the end that I 'm right and it was set up by murdering bog-trotters . |
| 21 | WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A new All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation was set up by presidential decree on Feb. 8 in place of Gosteleradio , the USSR State Television and Radio Committee . |
| 24 | This argument was set out with particular clarity by James Mill in his celebrated Essay on Government , first published in 1820 . |