Example sentences of "[be] set [adv prt] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) television programme , Panorama , broadcast on Nov. 18 , suggested that Waite had been set up as a front man in the arms for hostages deal and helped gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the captors . |
| 2 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 3 | The company is being set up as a 50:50 joint venture with the French educational publisher Magnard , which has started to move into general trade publishing with its recent acquisitions of the New Age publisher Dervy and the children 's and general academic imprint Vuibert . |
| 4 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 5 | AA was set up as a monthly hardcopy abstracts journal in 1954 and an online database was introduced in 1986 containing material from 1980 to date , giving easy access to abstracts spanning the discipline of analytical chemistry . |
| 6 | Operation Gemini was set up as a high profile battle against criminals . |
| 7 | The departure of occupying forces was recommended and a new commission , the UN Commission on Korea ( UNCOK ) , was set up as a permanent body charged with helping to attain unification . |
| 8 | 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 . |