Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony is that no VAT would be levied if hoteliers were to set up a separate sandwich bar business next to their property and handed out sandwiches and drinks . |
| 2 | If that company were to set up a new pension scheme based on only 461 employees , the likelihood is that scheme would in no way match a scheme based on more than 10,000 members , as is the case with the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 3 | In a statement broadcast on national radio , the soldiers , who appeared to be led by Capt. Valentine Strasser , announced that they were setting up a National Provisional Defence Council . |
| 4 | Perhaps the single most important decision was to set up a Wirral-wide counselling service for drug users . |
| 5 | The second proposal was to set up a long-term residential therapeutic centre which eventually involved inviting Phoenix House , an established and reputable charity , to set up in Wirral . |
| 6 | [ The Secretary of State 's immediate response to the report was to set up a new working party on English in the national curriculum , chaired by Professor Brian Cox , one of the members of the Kingman Committee . ] |
| 7 | From the beginning , the aim was to set up a prestigious institution , able to house the big exhibitions which have often passed Germany by . |
| 8 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |
| 9 | The second — obviously , now I see it — was to set up a complementary unit to deal with long-term aims . |
| 10 | The Minister 's response was to set up a coordinating committee of the nationalised fuel industry chairmen . |
| 11 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
| 12 | One of the first steps taken was to set up the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme ( EMEP ) to measure emissions and deposition of sulphur and nitrogen oxides in Europe . |
| 13 | The main consequence of these discussions was to set up an International Commission of Chemical Nomenclature to continue the work started at the conference . |
| 14 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 15 | Our first step was to set up an independent trust to repair the building . |
| 16 | It was decided that Wordsworth should write the first book or canto of the tale , Coleridge the second , ‘ and which ever had done first , was to set about the third ’ . |
| 17 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 18 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 19 | Between the advertisements for Brylcream and Bile Beans was set out a forty-page prospectus for a ‘ new Britain' , consisting of a series of short articles putting forward proposals for a fresh approach to employment , social security , town planning , architecture , the countryside , education , health , the medical services and leisure . |
| 20 | This downhill was set down the long-established OK course from Bellewarde to La Daille ; the two in February will be on the new Olympic piste carved down the precipitate north-east face on to the very heart of the village . |
| 21 | The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England . |
| 22 | Even before the new Guide had been issued , CAJEC announced that it was setting up a Standard Review Group to monitor continuously the need for new ethical guidance . |
| 23 | It was as if the graft was setting up a whole new embryo and re-specifying the positions of the cells in its vicinity . |
| 24 | The Judge declared that the foundation to this treason was setting up a false religion . |
| 25 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 26 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |