Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israel appears to have shared many of the techniques and conceptions of sacrifice of her neighbours , but her own observances were set firmly in the framework of God 's revelation at Sinai . |
| 2 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 3 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 4 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 5 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 6 | They are not — it was a working document from officials ; Ministers ' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill . |
| 7 | The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements . |
| 8 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 9 | The long trestle tables were set out in the meadow and garden lights strung out in the trees , and soon the diners began to arrive . |
| 10 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 11 | These were set out in the code of practice issued under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 12 | The details of that title are nowhere given , beyond a statement that they were set out in the petition of the three estates which besought Richard to take the crown . |
| 13 | The details of that title are nowhere given , beyond a statement that they were set out in the petition of the three estates which besought Richard to take the crown . |
| 14 | The precautions that should be taken to avoid this situation were set out in the section on consecutive spill , page 186 . |
| 15 | In various parts of the Bible all these offerings are said to " alone " — to cover sin — indicating that any act of worship was set squarely in the context of God 's forgiving grace . |
| 16 | The committee was set up in the wake of the Cleveland child sex abuse inquiry to implement the National Health Service and Community Care Act . |
| 17 | Yesterday , a ‘ cop shop ’ was set up in the Strand . |
| 18 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 19 | A camp was set up in the Bois de Lapiérouse . |
| 20 | The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him . |
| 21 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 22 | Bric-a-brac was donated and sold on the stall which was set up in the factory canteen . |
| 23 | After a campaign by councillors , a registration scheme was set up in the Cheyney Road , Garden Lane and Ermine Road areas of the city . |
| 24 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 25 | A right wing military Government was set up in the South as a result of the peace conference was convened at Geneva in 1954 . |
| 26 | When he was well enough , a makeshift court was set up in the hospital for a 30-minute hearing into which Broderick hobbled on crutches . |
| 27 | One of the initiatives er was er the Congress the Wa all Wales Congress that was set up in the miner 's strike for instance . |
| 28 | The Orkney Christian Fellowship was set up in the mid-1980s by a former Church of Scotland Minister , Alan Cowieson , who had caused division amongst a number of families while he was still Minister of the Evie , Rendall and Firth Parish . |
| 29 | The second series of the Advocates was set partly in the University itself . |
| 30 | Many police officers were angry that the cases had been brought at all , since the methods employed by the defendant constables were said to have involved no more than what was set out in the Home Office-approved Tactical Options Manual . |