Example sentences of "[adj] was set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This was set up by a Henley member , the late Stephen Bertram , who lost his left arm in the Second War and who joined the Society in 1955 .
2 This was set up by the Fair Trade Foundation which you were asking about , .
3 This was set out in a section headed ‘ Dress and Deportment ’ , and illustrates Foucault 's point ( ibid. ) that in such situations the body is ‘ docile ’ to authoritative orders from above .
4 There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders .
5 The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights .
6 The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert .
7 Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 .
8 Interim Flight Authority arrived on August 11 , 1992 and the 17th was set aside for the great day .
9 The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills .
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