Example sentences of "[was/were] set up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony is that no VAT would be levied if hoteliers were to set up a separate sandwich bar business next to their property and handed out sandwiches and drinks . |
| 2 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 3 | If that company were to set up a new pension scheme based on only 461 employees , the likelihood is that scheme would in no way match a scheme based on more than 10,000 members , as is the case with the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 4 | Though he could n't hear them , Trent knew that they were setting up a race . |
| 5 | Without any fuss they were setting up a machine-gun while a party came straight up the hill towards the ambush positions . |
| 6 | In a statement broadcast on national radio , the soldiers , who appeared to be led by Capt. Valentine Strasser , announced that they were setting up a National Provisional Defence Council . |
| 7 | ‘ You be careful of those tiles ! ’ he yelled towards the boys in the bathroom who were setting up a step-ladder in the bath . |
| 8 | They were setting up an introduction agency for Thai women and British men . |
| 9 | While the mechanics were setting up the cars , she thought she 'd go outside into one of the empty stands to try to find a breath of wind , anything rather than standing in the back of the pits in the high humidity which made her skin glow . |
| 10 | The swimmers and sunbathers had all gone , getting ready for dinner , and the groundsmen were setting up the tables and lighting the barbecue . |
| 11 | And as I said , I spoke to the supervisor , switchboard supervisor , Di Combes , when we were setting up the course , and asked her what sort of things she would like to put across at a course like this which would make the switchboard 's job easier . |
| 12 | What Blake did was to set up a very clever cover story which would pre-empt any subsequent accusations that he was in touch with the Russians . |
| 13 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |
| 14 | Their idea was to set up a cooperative to supply computer skills to voluntary groups and other co-ops , and to develop new software for the purpose . |
| 15 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 16 | What they needed , they decided , was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation . |
| 17 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
| 18 | The Minister 's response was to set up a coordinating committee of the nationalised fuel industry chairmen . |
| 19 | Against this background merchants , or factors , trading a long way from their home base realized that the safest form of organization was to set up a factory or small enclave for merchants of the type that the Hanseatic League had maintained in London up to 1598 . |
| 20 | From the beginning , the aim was to set up a prestigious institution , able to house the big exhibitions which have often passed Germany by . |
| 21 | The bathroom ceiling needed replastering , and the idea was to set up a platform , consisting of milk crates and scaffold boards . |
| 22 | Perhaps the single most important decision was to set up a Wirral-wide counselling service for drug users . |
| 23 | The second proposal was to set up a long-term residential therapeutic centre which eventually involved inviting Phoenix House , an established and reputable charity , to set up in Wirral . |
| 24 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 25 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 26 | One of the first changes Laura made to Rhydoldog was to set up a telex room and offices at the end of the corridor on the ground floor . |
| 27 | The Government 's response was to set up a committee chaired by a judge ( Mrs. Justice Heilbron ) to look into the matter . |
| 28 | [ The Secretary of State 's immediate response to the report was to set up a new working party on English in the national curriculum , chaired by Professor Brian Cox , one of the members of the Kingman Committee . ] |
| 29 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 30 | The first move was to set up a meet with Jo . |