Example sentences of "[noun pl] was set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace . |
| 2 | Amber Film Productions was set up in 1969 as a collective group of technicians , documenting working class life in the North East of England . |
| 3 | The Department of East Asian Studies was set up in 1967 . |
| 4 | In Manchester , for example , a permanent Tactical Aid Group of seventy-four specially trained officers was set up in 1976 . |
| 5 | Mail order computer retailer and manufacturer Chipboards Plc has called in the receivers , Robson Rhodes , which are now trying to sell the combined or separate businesses and assets of the group as a going concern : the company comprises a Chipboards division , which sells clone personal computers , upgrades and peripherals by mail order and has a turnover of £8m ; and a Chipset division , which manufactures high-end clone personal computers such as file servers , Unix machines and workstations for computer-aided design and generates £3m in revenues ; Chipboards was set up in 1987 , is based in Bisley , near Woking , Surrey , and claims to have a customer base of 20,000 . |
| 6 | Thus a bureau des fonds with a wide range of responsibilities including control of the ministry 's finances was set up in 1725 , a bureau du chiffre for the cyphering and decyphering of despatches in 1749 and a bureau des interprètes in 1768 . |