Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] set [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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1 | The numerous non-manufacturing subsidiaries ( such as travel agencies , restaurants and computer software firms ) that were set up in the late 1980s are most vulnerable . |
2 | I was Secretary of the miner 's support group that was set up in Blaenau during the year long miner 's s strike where we collected a lot of food and twinned with a town down in South Wales and made a lot of new friends . |
3 | One of the initiatives er was er the Congress the Wa all Wales Congress that was set up in the miner 's strike for instance . |
4 | It grew out of the work of the wartime Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and was set up in 1946 , with the great economist Lord Keynes as its first Chairman . |
5 | The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius |