Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 2 | To this end Payroll/Personnel administration departments were set up reporting to the Site Personnel Managers . |
| 3 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 4 | Approximately 50 years ago , the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad was set up to deal with the then growing incidence of company fraud . |
| 5 | IBM and Fiat Engineering were invited to participate and in 1987 the interdisciplinary Neapolis project was set up to focus on the vast archaeological site of Pompeii . |
| 6 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |