Example sentences of "this [noun] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1776 twelve schools of this kind were set up in the French provinces , largely in an effort to cope with the military pretensions of the poorer nobility . |
| 2 | This rule was set solidly into our law by the House of Lords in Hollins v. Fowler . |
| 3 | This committee was set up on May 18-19 , consisting of Marcovic , Kadijevic and Gracanin as well as the two Vice-Presidents of the Federal Executive Council , Aleksandar Mitrovic and Zivko Pregl , the Justice and Administration Secretary Vlado Kambovski , and the Secretary-General of the government , Zoran Miskovic . |
| 4 | This court was set up in 1971 by the Courts Act . |
| 5 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 6 | This argument was set out with particular clarity by James Mill in his celebrated Essay on Government , first published in 1820 . |
| 7 | This authority was set up under the Medway Ports Authority Scheme of 1968 and the Medway Ports Authority Act 1973 . |
| 8 | This tribunal was set up under the Tribunals of Enquiry ( Evidence ) Act 1921 the procedure of which is designed to elicit facts . |
| 9 | This project was set up by the county council and Countryside Commission to experiment with new approaches to path maintenance . |
| 10 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 11 | This league was set up by David Baggaley and Paul Craven to ‘ promote indoor climbing competitions at all standards ’ . |
| 12 | The precautions that should be taken to avoid this situation were set out in the section on consecutive spill , page 186 . |
| 13 | So , in 1931 , he began to train teachers to carry on his work ; this school was set up in his home at 16 Ashley Place in London SW1 and it continued up to his death in October 1955 . |