Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Accademia Reale set up in Turin in 1677 , the Noble Cadet Corps established in Saint Petersburg in 1731 , the Ecole Royale Militaire which came into existence in Paris in 1751 , the military academies established at Wiener-Neustadt in 1752 and Zamora in 1790 , were all essentially intended to prepare young nobles for a military career .
2 The alternative approach of the evaluative typology that Barthes sets out in S/Z privileges the writing of the text , and sees it not as a structure or as a copy of a structure ( poetics ) , but as a practice .
3 A joint commission of representatives of Croatia , the RSK , the EC and UNPROFOR set up in June suspended its negotiations on Nov. 9 due to lack of progress over demilitarization and other issues .
4 Jelfs originally helped SCO to set up in Australia and has been poached by Univel to be its number one employee in the Asia/Pacific region , responsible for everywhere except Japan .
5 In reprisal the Armstrongs set off in force and burned Netherby in Cumberland .
6 The major new documentary series of the year was Granada 's widely acclaimed ‘ Disappearing World ’ in which Brian Moser set off in search of native tribes in the remotest parts of the world .
7 It 's seven years since Honda set up in Swindon .
8 Believing Clark 's Fork Canyon to be impassable , and convinced that Joseph was escaping , Sturgis set off in pursuit .
9 Later he and Ben Allen set up in practice in Bristol as ‘ Sawyer , late Nockemorf ’ , and after going bankrupt are given appointments as surgeons in the East India Company .
10 Not knowing the vintage of this picture , the Doctor and Barbara set off in search of Ian and Vicki .
11 In 1754 this system was changed when the Empress Maria Theresa set up in Vienna the Orientalische Akademie to train young men for consular and diplomatic work in the Near East .
12 Imagine the scene : as the sun rises over the purple hills of Umbria in central Italy , Franco Scarponi and his son Adolfo set off in search of one of the region 's most highly prized delicacies — juniper berries .
13 When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well .
14 With this hope , he and Eugénie set out in August 1867 on a state visit to Austria to meet the Emperor Franz-Joseph at Salzburg .
15 In 1862 Smith set up in business on his own account .
16 Mattocks Roses go back 4 generations to 1875 when Mark 's great grand-father , John Mattock set up in business in Headington in Oxford .
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