Example sentences of "[noun pl] was set [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 3 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 4 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 5 | A row of buses waited outside the station to take the racegoers away to a variety of outlying motels , and a long new coach with darkly tinted windows was set aside for the owners . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1970 the Committee on Safety of Medicines was set up under the Act and began work in the following year … with the purpose of ‘ a. giving advice with respect to safety , quality and efficacy in relation to human use of any substance or article ( not being an instrument apparatus or appliance ) to which any provision of the Act is applicable and b. promoting the collection and investigation of information relating to adverse reaction for the purpose of enabling such advice to be given . ’ |
| 9 | In May 1965 £100 from the Society Stewards ' accounts was set aside as the beginning of a Building Fund , the purpose of which was either to extend the existing halls or to build new ones . |
| 10 | The second series of the Advocates was set partly in the University itself . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |