Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 2 | ‘ If you mean the Prince thinks that we 'd be better off if the clock were set back a couple of hundred years , ’ Caroline said , ‘ the answer 's yes . ’ |
| 3 | Though he could n't hear them , Trent knew that they were setting up a race . |
| 4 | ‘ You be careful of those tiles ! ’ he yelled towards the boys in the bathroom who were setting up a step-ladder in the bath . |
| 5 | Without any fuss they were setting up a machine-gun while a party came straight up the hill towards the ambush positions . |
| 6 | They were setting up an introduction agency for Thai women and British men . |
| 7 | And as I said , I spoke to the supervisor , switchboard supervisor , Di Combes , when we were setting up the course , and asked her what sort of things she would like to put across at a course like this which would make the switchboard 's job easier . |
| 8 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 9 | The Government 's response was to set up a committee chaired by a judge ( Mrs. Justice Heilbron ) to look into the matter . |
| 10 | One of the first changes Laura made to Rhydoldog was to set up a telex room and offices at the end of the corridor on the ground floor . |
| 11 | What they needed , they decided , was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation . |
| 12 | Their idea was to set up a cooperative to supply computer skills to voluntary groups and other co-ops , and to develop new software for the purpose . |
| 13 | The bathroom ceiling needed replastering , and the idea was to set up a platform , consisting of milk crates and scaffold boards . |
| 14 | Against this background merchants , or factors , trading a long way from their home base realized that the safest form of organization was to set up a factory or small enclave for merchants of the type that the Hanseatic League had maintained in London up to 1598 . |
| 15 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 16 | Courtaulds ' reaction was to set up a team to find and remedy the cause of the odour problem , working with the local residents . |
| 17 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 18 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 19 | Next thing to do was to set up a form . |
| 20 | Mrs Davidson , of Stirling , said that so many people had contacted them that the association 's annual meeting had decided the only way to raise its profile and make a difference for patients was to set up a body covering Scotland as a whole . |
| 21 | The first thing Harold Wilson did when he arrived in office was to set up a Policy Unit inside Number Ten , to work on short-term , day-to-day problems . |
| 22 | The first move was to set up a meet with Jo . |
| 23 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 24 | The task was to set up the office , get a system going to deal with the fan mail , gifts and general correspondence , liaise with dress designers and process the requests for patronages as they came in . |
| 25 | That report had two main objectives one was to establish a clear policy for G M B health and safety the second was to set out a training programme to establish the G M B's role in health and safety . |
| 26 | When the House of Lords rejected the Budget proposals of the Liberal government in 1909 , the response of that government was to set about the emasculation of the House of Lords . |
| 27 | The inquiry was set up a year ago by the Howard League for Penal Reform following a spate of suicides at Feltham since August 1991 . |
| 28 | The drinking water inspectorate was set up a year ago . |
| 29 | The review panel was set up a year ago under the chairmanship of Professor Ron Edwards of Cardiff University . |
| 30 | The air ambulance was set up a year ago as an experiment . |