Example sentences of "[det] was set [adv prt] [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 .
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