Example sentences of "were set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 2 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 5 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 6 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 7 | In January five ‘ faceless ’ courts with 82 selected judges were set up . |
| 8 | Almost invariably , I ended up each year in front of the Star Chamber of ministers who were set up under the chairmanship of Willie Whitelaw to try to sort out the differences which remained between ministers and the Chief Secretary . |
| 9 | According to tradition , it was founded by Joshua at the time of the miraculous crossing of the river , and twelve sacred stones were set up there to commemorate the event ( Josh. |
| 10 | Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies . |
| 11 | In the same way , as the enormous empire of Alexander the Great grew in the wake of conquests made during his short reign ( 336–323 BC ) , many mints were set up , all using the same designs . |
| 12 | Community Forests , funded by the Forestry and Countryside Commissions , were set up in 1990 on the outskirts of major cities . |
| 13 | They were set up to provide young people with basic , well-ordered accommodation from which they could experience the countryside . |
| 14 | Area panels to consider the case of every child at serious risk of reception into care , were set up . |
| 15 | Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists . |
| 16 | Unless nitrogen pollution is significantly reduced , many of the rare plants for which conservation sites were designated or nature reserves were set up will disappear . |
| 17 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 18 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 19 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 20 | Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city . |
| 21 | However , in the event , Soviet regimes were set up in Estonia and Latvia in October 1917 , but were overthrown by German occupation . |
| 22 | Extension services were set up to focus upon a target population of every couple , the wife of which was aged 15–44 years , backed up by medical services and financial incentives to adopters . |
| 23 | The societies had been created in 1964 out of the committees which were set up to organise the 1963 commemorations of the bicentenary of the birth of Wolfe Tone , the leader of the United Irishmen and martyr of the 1798 Rising . |
| 24 | A platform and public address system were set up by NICRA stewards in front of the police cordon . |
| 25 | Listening circles were set up which bear a strong resemblance to those used for today 's Open University programmes . |
| 26 | Catchment boards were set up , which in 1948 became river boards , and in 1964 river authorities . |
| 27 | If five peaks were set up they could provide the basis for the tentacles of hydra , or for the fingers in the early development of the human hand . |
| 28 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 29 | There are now two active groups of doctors and a group for nurses which were set up specifically to oppose the use of animals in medical research on the grounds that it is unscientific . |
| 30 | Whilst these local authorities were developing in form , other bodies were set up to administer special functions . |