Example sentences of "[adj] was set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The following drill shows how this was set up for ( simplified ) Basari ( Togo ) : Once these simple drills are mastered then the noun phrase in the object slot could be expanded by the addition of one modifier at a time and drilled until all modifiers which may be affixed for concord with the noun have been drilled .
2 This was set up on 10 February in Dresden when delegates from Russia and Germany held their first joint session to discuss the restitution of art treasures missing since World War II .
3 This was set up by a Henley member , the late Stephen Bertram , who lost his left arm in the Second War and who joined the Society in 1955 .
4 This was set up by the Fair Trade Foundation which you were asking about , .
5 This was set up in 1972 to cope with the fact that , in the words of the director of the regional organization'
6 The rationale for this was set out at some length :
7 This was set out in a section headed ‘ Dress and Deportment ’ , and illustrates Foucault 's point ( ibid. ) that in such situations the body is ‘ docile ’ to authoritative orders from above .
8 National was set up in 1989 specifically to sell the capacity , and the change leaves National 's attempt to become a public telecommunications operator in doubt .
9 There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders .
10 Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems .
11 The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights .
12 On March 30 a branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International was set up in East Berlin .
13 The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert .
14 Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 .
15 More than Dm300 million was set aside for future environmental protection measures , and stocks were valued according to the ‘ last in , first out ’ principle , which cuts out paper profit ( and thus reduces taxable profit ) when prices rise .
16 Interim Flight Authority arrived on August 11 , 1992 and the 17th was set aside for the great day .
17 That was set out in our papers last week .
18 In 1988 about one case in 19 was set down for trial and for every 94 writs issued one case was determined by trial .
19 Mountain View , California-based Brio Technology Inc was set up in 1984 , and develops cross-system software for desktop data access in a client-server environment .
20 The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills .
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