Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 2 | Already , 156 hospitals have left the NHS since trusts were set up two years ago . |
| 3 | The German-American Academic Council was set up this month on the initiative of Germany to support projects and exchanges in science , including social science , and technology . |
| 4 | Up to 180 boats were setting as much as 8000 km ( 5000 miles ) of net each night during the 4-month season . |
| 5 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 6 | It was because of these attacks that a Public Enquiry into the issue of political vetting was set up three years ago . |
| 7 | Turkmenistan was to set up national armed forces , formed out of former Soviet units stationed in the republic , but under joint Turkmen and Russian command . |
| 8 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 9 | The loose-boxes were set around three sides of a square and away to the right , half-hidden , was a neglected-looking dwelling . |
| 10 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 11 | According to Mason , ‘ The foundation was set up six months ago before the Canaletto 's sale was made public . |
| 12 | When the Video Library was set up ten years ago by the non-profit-making association , Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques , I suggested to Jean Antoine that he should keep a U-matic video copy . |
| 13 | It was feared that the push-bike was a health hazard , for example causing ‘ bicycle face ’ , ‘ bicycle hand ’ and ‘ bicycle foot ’ , as well as the dreaded kyphosis bicyclistratum , or ‘ cyclist hump ’ , which resulted if the handle-bars were set too low . |
| 14 | The DOCE was set up five years ago to provide up-to-date information for both teachers and pupils in secondary education , and originally sent data out on floppy . |
| 15 | Denplan Care was set up five years ago by two dentists and now has 200,000 patients and 3,000 dentists . |
| 16 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 17 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 18 | It was noted that the localiser deflection sensitivity of the No. 1 VOR was set too high and the flag alarm settings on both the localiser and the glideslope were such that the flags would not appear even when the signals were unusable . |
| 19 | The land was set aside 10 years ago , but since then the plan has grown and South Oxfordshire District Council recently turned it down . |
| 20 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 21 | Run by farm owner Tim Butler , the business park was set up three years ago and there are currently 11 tenants . |
| 22 | If the level was set too high , Michael could hear all right , but unfortunately so could the rest of the theatre , in a sort of ghostly pre-echo . |
| 23 | Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power . |
| 24 | In due course Nones was set back three hours to midday , and this is the origin of the word ‘ noon ’ . |
| 25 | If a grandparent were to set up such an accumulation trust for the benefit of grandchildren , then income can be paid out to a grandchild when a minor and unmarried , without the income being aggregated with the income of the grandparent or the parents of the beneficiary . |
| 26 | A working party was set up last July to advise on this University 's contribution to IY , and one of its recommendations , approved by Senate at its meeting of November 18th , is that each Faculty should nominate a member of staff to ‘ shadow ’ some person employed at senior management level in local manufacturing industry , nominated through CRUM , in the course of the winter term . |