Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excluding the lay fraternities , 280 private chantries were set up in London during the fourteenth century , the heyday of the movement . |
| 2 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 3 | Local Marine Boards were set up in all main ports and a Shipping Master appointed by each to take administrative responsibility for masters ' and mates ' examinations and the business of engaging and discharging seamen under pain of penalty for " crimping " and other similar offences . |
| 4 | A number of short-lived clandestine presses were set up within Russia , and at the same time radical publicists took full advantage of periods of lighter censorship . |
| 5 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 6 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 7 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 8 | His broad shoulders and powerful legs were set off to perfection by the excellent cut , while a snow-white silk shirt emphasised his tanned , rugged face . |
| 9 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 10 | The Research programme on Environmental Issues was set up by the ESRC Environment and Planning Committee with the aim of increasing the intellectual and practical contributions of the social sciences to the understanding and amelioration of environmental problems . |
| 11 | Close to the door , rows of slatted chairs were set out behind a rope barrier . |
| 12 | Again a series of experimental projects was set up in order to evaluate the effect of the measure on traffic safety . |
| 13 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 14 | Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies . |
| 15 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 16 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 17 | The government 's decision on the Dobry Reports was set out in detail in DoE Circular 113/75 . |
| 18 | His religious opinions were set out in A Short History of the Evangelical Movement ( 1915 ) , and his personal interpretation of Whig philosophy in Politics and Personalities ( 1917 ) . |
| 19 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 20 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 21 | Certain lands were set aside for the upkeep of religious and charitable foundations — the vakifs . |
| 22 | However , in the event , Soviet regimes were set up in Estonia and Latvia in October 1917 , but were overthrown by German occupation . |
| 23 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 24 | The New Shed dealt with manufactured goods ( toys , groceries , hardware , etc. ) , the Old Down Shed with bulk traffic ( flour , grain , fresh fruit ) , and two special sheds were set aside for American and French imported goods . |
| 25 | The Department of East Asian Studies was set up in 1967 . |
| 26 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 27 | Special squads were set up in 1976 against what the Daily Mirror called " Britain 's army of dole queue swindlers " . |
| 28 | Other permanent quadrats were set up by Forrest Shreve ( 1915 ) at the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington at Tucson , Arizona , and it appears to be through a colleague of Shreve , W. A. Cannon , that T. G. B. Osborn was stimulated in 1926 to set up permanent quadrats in heavily used shrub land and a reserve released from grazing at Koonamore in S. Australia ( Osborn , Wood & Partridge , 1935 ; O. B. Williams & Mott , 1981 ) . |