Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The date for the trial of Orchin , Richmond and McCready was set eventually for mid-February 1974 , sixteen months after their arrests . |
| 4 | The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind : |
| 5 | The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 7 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 8 | WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name . |
| 9 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 10 | A working party chaired by Lady Vaizey was set up in 1977 to look into the question of making such payments , but although it produced a paper on the subject , no further action was taken . |
| 11 | ANDRA was set up in 1977 under the auspices of the atomic energy commission ( Commissariat à l'Énergie atomique ) and its sister organization , the state nuclear corporation ( Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires ) . |
| 12 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 13 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 14 | EFQM was set up in 1988 and now has a membership of some 200 leading European businesses , all of which recognize the role of quality in achieving competitive advantage . |
| 15 | The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements . |
| 16 | The TVEI was set up in 1983 as a series of pilot projects designed to test a variety of different methods and approaches , and was extended in 1987 , becoming a national scheme intended , eventually , to be available to all 14–18-year-olds , irrespective of ability . |
| 17 | Taylor Woodrow was set up after the unintended sale of two houses by a 16-year old greengrocer 's son and his solicitor uncle . |
| 18 | British domination of Egypt was set up by Sir Evelyn Baring ( soon to be Lord Cromer and known to his subordinates as " the Lord " ) . |
| 19 | The specific proposals of the PAC were set out in paragraph 8.10 to 8.16 . |
| 20 | The first film commission in Britain was set up in 1989 in Liverpool , in response to Mersey Television 's need for locations around that city , as they developed drama programmes from their base in Brookside . |
| 21 | The CCC was set up in June 1990 as successor to the audiovisual training centre , Hatch End , which ran courses mainly for Third World students . |
| 22 | When the ILO was set up in Geneva , Sophy Sanger was appointed chief of its legislative section , a post she held until 1924 , when she was edged out of the organization by Albert Thomas , the director . |
| 23 | A parliamentary commission of inquiry into arms sales to Iran was set up on Sept. 27 and its report , presented on April 2 , 1990 ( without SPÖ agreement ) , contained serious criticism of senior politicians and of the Voest-Alpine group 's decision to manufacture howitzers and other weapons . |
| 24 | LINNET was set up by Logica , SD-Scicon and University College , London , in association with DTI , to introduce organisations to the practical application of neural network technology in the context of their own business areas . |
| 25 | In 1962 ELDO was set up on this basis — with the L standing for launcher . |
| 26 | The first dispensary in Darlington was set up in 1808 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of King George 11 . |
| 27 | Poland was set up by the Allies to help subdue Germany , but was then criticised for taking German territory . |
| 28 | When a joint committee of CST and CASS was set up during the debates , it was chaired by Sir Alan Richmond , who described it as ‘ the most difficult committee I have ever chaired in my life ’ . |
| 29 | Rome was set apart from her neighbours by her ancient fame and lasting prestige — and yet , in these centuries , one can not but think , far more by the presence of the apostles and martyrs , and of the pope . |
| 30 | Directly after the war a special bureau the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit was set up under the aegis of the Ministry of Finance and charged with the recovery of illegally removed works of art under the German occupation and their subsequent return to their rightful owners . |