Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VIA Rail was set up in 1977 after the competing giants , Canadian Pacific , now grown into a huge conglomerate , and its nationalised rival Canadian National had found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight . |
| 2 | In 1983 , the Gaia Programme was set up in conjunction with the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena ( ASSAP ) . |
| 3 | The privately funded Foundation for Exchange Across the Taiwan Strait was set up on Nov. 21 as the " only important " channel entrusted by the Mainland Affairs Council with the handling of civilian affairs . |
| 4 | Saturday morning was set aside for cleaning and general tidying up . |
| 5 | A Europe-Argentina Club was set up in Brussels on Feb. 13 to promote joint ventures and investment in Argentina . |
| 6 | In 1984 the Wilson garden was set up in Chipping Campden as a memorial to him . |
| 7 | The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation . |
| 8 | Drummonds Bank was set up by a Scot in the Scottish end of London ( the name Scotland Yard dates from mediaeval times when the kings of Scotland and their ambassadors would lodge there . |
| 9 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 10 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |