Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The date for the trial of Orchin , Richmond and McCready was set eventually for mid-February 1974 , sixteen months after their arrests . |
| 2 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 3 | British domination of Egypt was set up by Sir Evelyn Baring ( soon to be Lord Cromer and known to his subordinates as " the Lord " ) . |
| 4 | The CCC was set up in June 1990 as successor to the audiovisual training centre , Hatch End , which ran courses mainly for Third World students . |
| 5 | When the ILO was set up in Geneva , Sophy Sanger was appointed chief of its legislative section , a post she held until 1924 , when she was edged out of the organization by Albert Thomas , the director . |
| 6 | A parliamentary commission of inquiry into arms sales to Iran was set up on Sept. 27 and its report , presented on April 2 , 1990 ( without SPÖ agreement ) , contained serious criticism of senior politicians and of the Voest-Alpine group 's decision to manufacture howitzers and other weapons . |
| 7 | LINNET was set up by Logica , SD-Scicon and University College , London , in association with DTI , to introduce organisations to the practical application of neural network technology in the context of their own business areas . |
| 8 | In August 1989 the third zone based at Gaylegphug was inaugurated and the fourth at Yongphalu was set up in September . |
| 9 | Timex was set up in Dundee in 1946 . |