Example sentences of "and [noun] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other areas of the establishment were infiltrated by fascists , and groups were set up in the Civil Service and in several educational centres and public schools , including the Universities of London and Birmingham , Stowe School , and Winchester , Beaumont and Worksop Colleges . |
| 2 | On 28 June 1919 the Treaty was put into effect and plebiscites were set up in Warmia , Mazuria and Silesia to determine the exact areas of land to be allocated to Poland . |
| 3 | The date for the trial of Orchin , Richmond and McCready was set eventually for mid-February 1974 , sixteen months after their arrests . |
| 4 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 5 | The Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology was set up in July 1982 under the chairmanship of Dame Mary Warnock to investigate in vitro fertilisation and human genetic research . |
| 6 | Their duties and responsibilities were set out in detail in the Public Assistance Order of 1930 : |
| 7 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 8 | Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city . |
| 9 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 10 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 11 | In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light . |
| 12 | The Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was set up under the Act to examine the practical way in which reform could be carried out . |
| 13 | Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers . |
| 14 | When a joint committee of CST and CASS was set up during the debates , it was chaired by Sir Alan Richmond , who described it as ‘ the most difficult committee I have ever chaired in my life ’ . |