Example sentences of "[noun pl] were set [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 2 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 3 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 4 | The cells were cultured in DMEM , with or without the addition of calcipotriol ( MC-903 ) at a final concentration of 10 - 5 to 10 - 9 M. All plates were set up in quadruplicate . |
| 5 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 6 | The " Green Con " awards were set up in 1989 to highlight bogus claims to environmental worthiness made by business . |
| 7 | Lesbian and Gay-Men 's Sub-Committees were set up in such a way as to give a high level of representation to people from outside the council 's structure , and to ensure that their voices could be heard . |
| 8 | Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist . |
| 9 | Their duties and responsibilities were set out in detail in the Public Assistance Order of 1930 : |
| 10 | Some of his ideas were set out in his only book , the highly readable The Power behind the Microphone ( 1941 ) , which also charts , highly selectively , his own experience . |
| 11 | The procedures for ordering reprints were set out in RBG Office Notice 15/91 [ numbered 15/90 in error ] , dated February 27 1991 . |
| 12 | Local Marine Boards were set up in all main ports and a Shipping Master appointed by each to take administrative responsibility for masters ' and mates ' examinations and the business of engaging and discharging seamen under pain of penalty for " crimping " and other similar offences . |
| 13 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 14 | The long trestle tables were set out in the meadow and garden lights strung out in the trees , and soon the diners began to arrive . |
| 15 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 16 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 17 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 18 | Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November . |
| 19 | This was a pattern to be followed when UDCs were set up in other areas in succeeding years . |
| 20 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 21 | Two bodies were set up in October 1990 to press for the introduction of multiparty democracy and the convening of a national conference on the country 's political future . |
| 22 | Stalls were set up in Rainey Street , Queen Street and Market Square , while police diverted traffic away from the town centre . |
| 23 | The principles and assumptions to be used for valuations were set out in regulations laid on2 September . |
| 24 | Other important curriculum development centres were set up in Ghana ( 1967 ) and Zambia ( 1970 ) . |
| 25 | Women 's Aid Centres were set up in Dublin and other major cities as I was preparing to leave Ireland . |
| 26 | Peripheral day hospitals and day centres were set up in Malvern and Evesham . |
| 27 | Humanities computing centres were set up in Oxford , Liege , Tubingen and other places . |
| 28 | New Mental Health Tribunals were set up in each health region to deal with any complaints arising from compulsory admission procedures . |
| 29 | The aims of the national curriculum and its related assessment procedures were set out in a consultative paper published in July 1987 in which it was anticipated that standards of educational provision and attainment would be raised by : |
| 30 | Special squads were set up in 1976 against what the Daily Mirror called " Britain 's army of dole queue swindlers " . |