Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 2 | ‘ This meeting was set up way before you ever appeared on the scene , ’ he said harshly . |
| 3 | It recently undertook such a project for a major oil company which was setting up shop in Moscow . |
| 4 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 5 | He looked with interest and sympathy at Robert , who was setting out paper cups next to the pile of buns . |