Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
2 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
5 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees . |
14 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
17 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
18 | Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November . |
19 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
20 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
21 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
22 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
23 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
26 | They are not — it was a working document from officials ; Ministers ' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
29 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
30 | The background to cuts was set out in the 1976 White paper on public Expenditure ( Cmnd 6393 ) : ‘ Popular expectations for improved public services and welfare programmes have not been matched by growth in output or by willingness to forgo improvements in private living standards in favour of these programmes . ’ |