Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inter-governmental conference set up at Strasbourg to look at EMU will consider two main sets of proposals . |
| 2 | After a fruitless meeting set up at Jeddah in the hope of reconciling their differences and some display of nervousness by the oil market , Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait on 2 August , occupying the capital and prompting the Amir , Shaikh Jaber , to seek refuge in Saudi Arabia . |
| 3 | The investigation to find the killer of David Edwards , 25 , will be led from an incident room set up at Leith police station . |
| 4 | A particularly instructive example is not a temple but an exquisite and in part well-preserved little marble building , the treasury set up at Delphi by the islanders of Siphnos . |
| 5 | On a different level the academy established at Woolwich in 1741 , the great engineering school set up at Mézières in 1748 , the combined artillery and engineer school created in Russia in 1756 , and a number of similar establishments , provided the armies of Europe with a greater fund of technical knowledge than they had hitherto possessed . |
| 6 | Obviously there must be evidence outside the registry of the trusts affecting the former matrimonial home and the declaration of trust set out at Precedent 50 is appropriate both for registered and unregistered land . |
| 7 | KPMG Peat Marwick partner Ian Watt has become head of the special investigations unit set up at Lord Bingham 's suggestion , as part of the Bank of England 's supervisory system . |
| 8 | When the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution expired in April 1990 , the former bicameral parliament set up at independence in 1980 was replaced by a new single-chamber parliament , the House of Assembly , with 150 members ( 120 elective , 10 traditional chiefs , eight provincial governors appointed by the President and 12 other presidential appointees ) . |
| 9 | In April 1990 the bicameral parliament set up at independence was replaced by a single-chamber House of Assembly with 150 members ( 120 elective , 10 traditional chiefs , eight provincial governors designated by the president and 12 other presidential appointees ) and a life of six years . |