Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And national or local government may offer subsidies for businesses to set up in favoured areas . |
| 2 | The Fitzgeralds had never known their neighbours very well , partly because Magdalen Street was wide , with houses set back behind small gardens and with steps to the front door , and partly because their big family made them self-sufficient . |
| 3 | Dr Nicholas Parkhouse had come to Kurdestan in 1985 under arrangements set up by International Medical Relief , a body linked to the French Medecins sans Frontières which was organizing a medical assistance operation spanning both sides of the frontier at the request of KDPI leader Qassemlou . |
| 4 | The Cologne-based Association of the Victims of Stalinism claimed that around 21,000 internees had died after 1945 in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and that 90,000 people had died in camps set up by Soviet occupying forces in eastern Germany after 1945 . |
| 5 | Even so , by the end of April 20,000 Kurdish refugees a day were returning to havens set up in northern Iraq by Western troops — not without some hesitation , as when Kurdish peshmerga declared the haven at Zakho unsafe because there were still Iraqi police in the town . |
| 6 | Among printers ' mementoes , one should not forget the special examples , in the nature of things not easy to find because of the infrequency of the occasions , produced by presses set up on frozen rivers , such as the Thames and Severn . |