Example sentences of "was set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 2 | I have a 39″ × 18″ × 12″ marine tank which was set up 16 months ago . |
| 3 | It was set up that way , certainly , but was it set up by him ? ’ |
| 4 | Denplan Care was set up five years ago by two dentists and now has 200,000 patients and 3,000 dentists . |
| 5 | The DOCE was set up five years ago to provide up-to-date information for both teachers and pupils in secondary education , and originally sent data out on floppy . |
| 6 | It was set up five years ago as a new shop to combine the Art Bookshop and the Poster Gallery , which prior to that had been part of the Paperback Bookshop . |
| 7 | One of the largest is Denplan , which was set up four years ago by an ex-dentist . |
| 8 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 9 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 10 | According to Mason , ‘ The foundation was set up six months ago before the Canaletto 's sale was made public . |
| 11 | Run by farm owner Tim Butler , the business park was set up three years ago and there are currently 11 tenants . |
| 12 | It was because of these attacks that a Public Enquiry into the issue of political vetting was set up three years ago . |
| 13 | Our control should be extended to the country and a tripartite commission exists to reform the Labour Code , but it was set up three years ago , and so far there have n't been any results . |
| 14 | The undercover operation , code-named Operation Courier , was set up three years ago by the DEA in Cyprus to infiltrate Lebanese heroin groups in the Middle East and their connections in Detroit . |
| 15 | Jointly funded by the IFI and the DoE , it has come about as a result of the efforts of the Garrison and Melvin Community Development Association which was set up three years ago as a ‘ self help ’ group for the region . |
| 16 | Retail , which refuses to disclose the terms of the deal , was set up last year with £10m of City capital and is headed by Malcolm Parkinson , the former B & Q managing director . |
| 17 | The ISE Council yesterday considered a progress report from the special committee on the domestic equity market , chaired by Nigel Elwes , which was set up last year to examine stock market procedures in the wake of the October 1987 crash . |
| 18 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 19 | A working party was set up last July to advise on this University 's contribution to IY , and one of its recommendations , approved by Senate at its meeting of November 18th , is that each Faculty should nominate a member of staff to ‘ shadow ’ some person employed at senior management level in local manufacturing industry , nominated through CRUM , in the course of the winter term . |
| 20 | He was appointed director of the council when it was set up last year . |
| 21 | IE Displays Ltd , of Rectory Road , Great Bromley , was set up last May and designs and supplies illuminated acrylic advertisement display cases . |
| 22 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 23 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 24 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 25 | For the wealthy , there 's the garden of intrigue , a permanent display costing forty thousand pounds which was set up last year by a local nursery.Those with tiny gardens and less money could gain inspiration from the series of patio gardens designed for the show . |
| 26 | It was set up last year at the behest of the Labour leader , John Smith , but has an independent life under Sir Gordon Borrie , former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 27 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 28 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 29 | When the Video Library was set up ten years ago by the non-profit-making association , Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques , I suggested to Jean Antoine that he should keep a U-matic video copy . |
| 30 | Runswick Bay rescue boat committee , which was set up ten years ago after the village lost its lifeboat , has had ten call-outs in the past year . |