Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 2 | His broad shoulders and powerful legs were set off to perfection by the excellent cut , while a snow-white silk shirt emphasised his tanned , rugged face . |
| 3 | The New Shed dealt with manufactured goods ( toys , groceries , hardware , etc. ) , the Old Down Shed with bulk traffic ( flour , grain , fresh fruit ) , and two special sheds were set aside for American and French imported goods . |
| 4 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 5 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 6 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 7 | He did n't realize that Ace 's motion sensors were set only to be triggered by an approaching movement source . |
| 8 | By statistical analysis of his surveys he showed that the megaliths were set out to a common unit of measurement , the megalithic yard of 0.83 m. , not in simple circles but in circular arcs centred on right-angled triangles . |
| 9 | Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists . |
| 10 | In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants . |
| 11 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 12 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 13 | Having established that they had no signs of any fatigue cracks on the rear spar chord , the left and right stabilisers from two different aircraft were set up on the test rig . |
| 14 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 15 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 16 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 17 | They are sceptical that a few extra consultants or staff grade appointments will really reduce their hours and complain that the new deal was set up by doctors ' representatives not working in hard pressed specialties . |
| 18 | The deal was set up by Ghazi Kenaan , Syria 's head of security in Beirut , who naturally took his cut off the top . |
| 19 | The date for the trial of Orchin , Richmond and McCready was set eventually for mid-February 1974 , sixteen months after their arrests . |
| 20 | In 1822 he won the competition for rebuilding London Bridge but the result was set aside in favour of the design by John Rennie [ q.v. ] ; and the principal feature of his career , for which he gained notice on the Continent as well as in England , was to be his speciality as a designer of large covered market buildings . |
| 21 | A Europe-Argentina Club was set up in Brussels on Feb. 13 to promote joint ventures and investment in Argentina . |
| 22 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 23 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 24 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 25 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 26 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 27 | This is a rare breed in the Massif Central , numbering only 400 by 1978 when a conservation programme was set up under the auspices of the Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d'Auvergne . |
| 28 | In 1983 , the Gaia Programme was set up in conjunction with the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena ( ASSAP ) . |
| 29 | The programme was set up in 1987 and named in memory of two employees — Ben Hajadi , an engineer who died in a car accident , and Solomon , who lost his life in a helicopter crash . |
| 30 | The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind : |