Example sentences of "[noun sg] was set [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 4 | The committee was set up in the wake of the Cleveland child sex abuse inquiry to implement the National Health Service and Community Care Act . |
| 5 | When he was well enough , a makeshift court was set up in the hospital for a 30-minute hearing into which Broderick hobbled on crutches . |
| 6 | The Orkney Christian Fellowship was set up in the mid-1980s by a former Church of Scotland Minister , Alan Cowieson , who had caused division amongst a number of families while he was still Minister of the Evie , Rendall and Firth Parish . |
| 7 | The role was an innovative one , and its initial scope was set out in the 1985 job specification ( Leeds City Council 1985c ) . |
| 8 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 9 | A right wing military Government was set up in the South as a result of the peace conference was convened at Geneva in 1954 . |
| 10 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 11 | The aim of the book was set out in the preface ( which , unlike many items in these plans , was actually written ) . " |
| 12 | There are more than 12 million pictures cataloguing what must be every major news story since the agency was set up in the 30's . |
| 13 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 14 | After a campaign by councillors , a registration scheme was set up in the Cheyney Road , Garden Lane and Ermine Road areas of the city . |
| 15 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 16 | A camp was set up in the Bois de Lapiérouse . |
| 17 | The framework for the National Curriculum was set out in the Education Reform Act 1988 . |