Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of meetings were set up during which we discussed how I would approach such a project . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher did not look with favour on Royal Commissions as a method of resolving difficult issues , and none were set up during her premiership between 1979–90 . |
| 3 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 4 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 5 | John asked , when they were set out on their journey . |
| 6 | Some of his ideas were set out in his only book , the highly readable The Power behind the Microphone ( 1941 ) , which also charts , highly selectively , his own experience . |
| 7 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |
| 8 | For most of the children it was a big adventure , at least when they were setting off with their school friends . |
| 9 | Keeping under cover , Adam followed a group who were setting off from their barracks . |
| 10 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 11 | A fund was set up for its restoration , but before the work could even be started the campanile collapsed . |
| 12 | Also , no hard data appear to be available giving a detailed breakdown of costs and savings associated with this new form of technology and work organisation , and it appears that , although there is spare capacity at Kalmar in the form of a second , as yet unworked , shift , when the new 760 model car was introduced in 1982 a new assembly line using conventional technology was set up for it at Gothenburg . |
| 13 | Thus it has been able to overcome the major hurdle of the possibility of losing top contacts and clients when it was set up on its own . |
| 14 | A volleyball net was set up on it , a wharf stretched out into the cove . |
| 15 | ‘ First the Law Lords allowed a breach of the Homicide Act so that Tony Bland died by involuntary euthanasia , then a Select Committee on euthanasia was set up in their Lordships ' House , only to be rechristened ‘ Medical Ethics ’ . |
| 16 | But the god whose sleep had been disturbed was not yet appeased , and after the unfairness of indiscriminate punishment had been discussed , a system was set up in which some women avoided childbirth by entering religious orders , while others lost infants through disease , thus limiting the population . |
| 17 | As the visit also presented an ideal opportunity of providing our guests with an in-depth view of JMSA 's diverse activities , an exhibition was set up in which autocatalysts and products of our Metal Joining , Noble Metals and Colour and Print businesses were incorporated . |
| 18 | So , in 1931 , he began to train teachers to carry on his work ; this school was set up in his home at 16 Ashley Place in London SW1 and it continued up to his death in October 1955 . |
| 19 | Paul O'Gorman died in February 1987 at the age of 14 and the Foundation was set up in his memory . |
| 20 | The appeal was set up by her friend , Lady Romsey in memory of her daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
| 21 | The outing was set up by her former Tory MP , the late Richard Holt , who also fixed it for her to take her first flight — an 80-minute trip over the Bay of Biscay in Concorde — when she was 109 . |
| 22 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 23 | I became involved with the Union ( ACTTS ) when an Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party was set up by them in 1984 . |
| 24 | It is understood the line was set up by his close friend Stephanie King , from Nottingham , but it is not yet clear whether Reggie Kray has broken any prison rules . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Unlike the capitalist social relations of interwar France in which the writer/intellectual was set apart from his/her real and potential reading public , a distant and alienated specialist " , the new social relations of Soviet society appeared to provide the writer/intellectual with a pivotal role in social construction . |
| 27 | The hospital spokesman said it was believed a smoke alarm was set off by someone having a cigarette in a toilet . |
| 28 | the discrepancy between what was set out in his syllabus and what was actually happening in the classrooms , particularly with regard to three dimensional work ; |
| 29 | That was set out in our papers last week . |
| 30 | In the next instant Travis was rising and she was set back on her feet as he put some distance between them . |