Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's Aid Centres were set up in Dublin and other major cities as I was preparing to leave Ireland . |
| 2 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 3 | Weekly group meetings were set up in Newham when five or six workers were on the payroll . |
| 4 | Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists . |
| 5 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 6 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 7 | Peripheral day hospitals and day centres were set up in Malvern and Evesham . |
| 8 | Other important curriculum development centres were set up in Ghana ( 1967 ) and Zambia ( 1970 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | GILL Rowlands , the ‘ trade union rights Commissioner ’ , whose expensive Warrington office to hear complaints against trade unions was set up by the government five years ago , says 1991-92 was ‘ an encouraging year ’ . |
| 11 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts . |
| 12 | The aims of the national curriculum and its related assessment procedures were set out in a consultative paper published in July 1987 in which it was anticipated that standards of educational provision and attainment would be raised by : |
| 13 | Road blocks were set up by Lothian and Borders police and neighbouring forces were also helping . |
| 14 | Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist . |
| 15 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 16 | He did n't realize that Ace 's motion sensors were set only to be triggered by an approaching movement source . |
| 17 | The first English factory to manufacture looking glass plates was set up by Sir Robert Mansell in the reign of James I. |
| 18 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 19 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 20 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 21 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 22 | New Mental Health Tribunals were set up in each health region to deal with any complaints arising from compulsory admission procedures . |
| 23 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 24 | In the early sixties , two long-term chimpanzee projects were set up in Tanzania : Jane Goodall 's in the wooded savannah around the Gombe Stream Research Center , and Toshida Nishida 's in the Mahale Mountains , some 200km south . |
| 25 | Amber Film Productions was set up in 1969 as a collective group of technicians , documenting working class life in the North East of England . |
| 26 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A Higher Economic Council for Instituting Market Relations was set up on June 23 . |