Example sentences of "was [adv] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest in the subject having thus been aroused among learned men in western Asia , a scientific institute was eventually set up in Baghdad after the Muslim conquest of much of that region . |
| 2 | In 1969 a new unit was formally set up in Edinburgh to study the geology of the continental shelf around Scotland . |
| 3 | The test was carefully set up in front of her . |
| 4 | Yesterday , an appeal was also set up for adults and children 's clothes and shoes , which should be taken to the council headquarters at Bodlondeb , Conwy . |
| 5 | It was originally set up by Churchill , who wanted better statistics to manage the war economy . |
| 6 | The campaign , which aims to raise £500,000 , was originally set up in memory of a seven-year-old Kent boy who dies in 1979 . |
| 7 | La Cutufa , a fraudulent loan and investment scheme , was allegedly set up by Pinochet 's National Information Centre ( CNI ) secret police in the mid-1980s . |