Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] as an " in BNC.
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1 | Connaught was set up as an investment vehicle after the 1987 crash . |
2 | His host of many a good evening , Mr. Harden , at Brathay Hall , was set up as an example of one who did not plant enough trees . |
3 | In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange . |
4 | Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative . |
5 | In 1873 a new lime works was established at Halling followed in 1878 by a cement works known as Halling Manor Lime and Cement Works which was set up as an addition to those already operated by Hilton , Anderson and Company at Upnor and Faversham . |