Example sentences of "was [adv] set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Fish Association was duly set up under the chairmanship of the Duke of Kent . |
| 2 | The judicial commission of inquiry , announced by the Prime Minister , Vere Bird Sr , on April 25 , was duly set up under the chairmanship of a British QC , Louis Blom-Cooper . |
| 3 | Its blood , streaming upon the glass , was slowly set aside by the windscreen wipers . |
| 4 | The product was discreetly set out towards the back with the label half turned away . |
| 5 | That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted . |
| 6 | This hillside defence system was probably set up by the Votadini , a tribe whose continual harassment by the neighbouring Selgovae led it to seek alliance with Rome at a very early stage . |
| 7 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 8 | Does the Prime Minister recall that the cause of reconciliation in Northern Ireland was tragically set back in the aftermath of the 1974 election ? |
| 9 | Because the trust was originally set up for the purposes of mitigating inheritance tax the trust may come within the provisions of ss739 and 740 with the exemption mentioned in s741 not being available . |
| 10 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 11 | The exception was the Geological Society , whose meeting room was even set out like the House of Commons for debate rather than in rows for a lecture . |
| 12 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 13 | First , such a change does not take place overnight among all artists ; and secondly it is very hard to be certain that a given statue from the Acropolis was actually set up before the invasion . |