Example sentences of "[was/were] set up [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 3 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 4 | Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city . |
| 5 | There were many stations which , whilst not being strictly private , were set up by a narrow section of the public and usually barred to casual travellers . |
| 6 | Early in 1942 two committees were set up by the Central Housing Advisory Committee to report to the Minister of Health ( the minister responsible for housing ) on the question of post-war housing rebuilding . |
| 7 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Tees Valley Tourism , a partnership between the public and private sectors , was set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years . |
| 13 | If the Church Commissioners subsequently agree to seal a Declaration of Redundancy , advice is sought on the future of the building from the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches , a national body which was set up under the Pastoral Measure . |
| 14 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 15 | The Resources Allocation Working Party ( RAWP ) was set up with a brief ( RAWP 1975 : 5 ) : To review the arrangement for distributing NHS capital and revenue … with a view to establishing a method of securing , as soon as practicable , a pattern of distribution responsible objectively , equitably and efficiently , to relative need . |
| 16 | It seemed the future was not without promise , and a European base was set up with the amiable Andrew Ferguson as team-manager . |
| 17 | In the Junior Clubman class a three nation battle was set up at the very start between Hillsborough 's Richard Lyons , Dublin 's John Grandon and Glasgow 's Craig Murray . |
| 18 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 19 | AA was set up as a monthly hardcopy abstracts journal in 1954 and an online database was introduced in 1986 containing material from 1980 to date , giving easy access to abstracts spanning the discipline of analytical chemistry . |
| 20 | Operation Gemini was set up as a high profile battle against criminals . |
| 21 | The departure of occupying forces was recommended and a new commission , the UN Commission on Korea ( UNCOK ) , was set up as a permanent body charged with helping to attain unification . |
| 22 | Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative . |
| 23 | It was set up after a three-year campaign by an all-party war crimes group . |
| 24 | Taylor Woodrow was set up after the unintended sale of two houses by a 16-year old greengrocer 's son and his solicitor uncle . |
| 25 | Thus , the Alliance for Progress , which gave rise to many agrarian reform programmes , was set up in the early 1960s . |
| 26 | The village , which is home to 132 orphans , was set up in the early 1980s by Mr Mr John Foster , a teacher at the former Central Comprehensive School in Darlington . |
| 27 | Fig. 126 shows the pediment as it was set up in the old museum , an arrangement that is certainly wrong . |
| 28 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 29 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 30 | The Redbridge Care Attendant Scheme , for instance , was set up by a local association for handicapped people with funding from various sources , including the Greater London Association for the Disabled ( address on page 146 ) . |