Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 2 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 3 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |
| 4 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 5 | In 1982 a further project entitled ‘ Study and information skills in schools ’ , was set up at the NFER to extend the above work , with the following aims : |
| 6 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 7 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 8 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 9 | The company was set up at the height of the property boom . |
| 10 | It was now necessary to be able to detect adulterants , and in October 1842 a laboratory ( the ancestor of the later Laboratory of the Government Chemist ) was set up at the excise department headquarters in Broad Street , London , staffed solely by George Phillips . |
| 11 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 12 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 13 | The Arch of Trajan in Ancona ( A.D. 113 ) was set up at the harbour entrance astride a causeway . |
| 14 | In the Junior Clubman class a three nation battle was set up at the very start between Hillsborough 's Richard Lyons , Dublin 's John Grandon and Glasgow 's Craig Murray . |
| 15 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |