Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People with learning disabilities who need residential care in Bassetlaw can go to one of four staffed homes which were set up partly by the health authority and are run by the Mencap Homes Foundation . |
| 2 | Television transmitters were set up only in Lusaka , Kabwe and on the Copperbelt . |
| 3 | Firstly , it is alleged that there was a failure to advise the plaintiff er before the contracts for this business were exchanged , as to the necessity for ensuring that there was adequate finance to er complete the purchase granted on terms that the plaintiff could meet and which were set out clearly in a letter of offer from the bank and there was a failure to advise the plaintiffs as to the risk of relying upon oral offers of financing from the bank . |
| 4 | The doctrines and policy of Sir Kenneth Newman were set out candidly in an unpublished , private lecture to the European Atlantic Group in 1983 , entitled Public Order in Free Societies . |
| 5 | A blast furnace was set up here in 1755 by Jonathan Kendall , powered by a waterwheel and fired with charcoal , and it remains in situ beside the River Dovey , the subject of preservation for public interest . |
| 6 | So , it has been held that decisions of the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers , which was set up neither by statute nor contract but simply by informal agreement , are subject to judicial review ; so are decisions of the Advertising Standards Authority and of the Code of Practice Committee of the British Pharmaceutical Industry . |
| 7 | Comic Relief was set up primarily in reaction to the famine in 1984 . |
| 8 | The scheme was set up just after the war in order to ensure state-sponsorship of the arts . |
| 9 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |
| 10 | Mr Harris said MPL was set up specifically for the contract . |
| 11 | One such group is the Haitian Information Bureau , which was set up recently as a news and information service designed to provide an accurate picture of the current situation in Haiti . |
| 12 | The process was set out clearly in a letter from Pope Gregory to Bishop Mellitus in CE601 : |
| 13 | The Commission 's thinking about a wider European organisation was set out yesterday by its vice-president , Mr Frans Andriessen , in a report about the proposed European economic space with Efta in which capital , people , trade , and services would move freely . |
| 14 | His plan to promote national reconciliation was set back further by his pardoning on Dec. 29 by presidential decree of the military leaders of the " dirty war " of the 1970s . |