Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 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 | The traders ' views were set out in a letter to Darlington Council from the Clark 's Yard Traders Association and the planning brief was approved . |
| 6 | Beveridge 's proposals were set out in a section of his report entitled ‘ The Problem of Age ’ . |
| 7 | The projects were set out in a pamphlet with the alluring title , We Can Conquer Unemployment : 350,000 men were to be employed on road-building , 60 , 000 on housing , 60,000 on telephone development and 62,000 on electrical development . |
| 8 | The social worker 's reasons were set out in a statement extending to some 12 pages which concluded : |
| 9 | When the sworn statements were collected and sorted , the results were set out in a list preserved in the count 's treasury at St Etienne in Troyes . |
| 10 | The first one was half of us were blindfolded and we were set out in a line and the rest had to move about 5–10 metres away and stand in a line . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These were set out in the code of practice issued under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The precautions that should be taken to avoid this situation were set out in the section on consecutive spill , page 186 . |
| 20 | He flicked a switch on the percolator , which was set up in a recess above one of the work-benches , and reached for a fresh mug . |
| 21 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 22 | The exhibition was set up in a room housing the work of early nineteenth century local artists , including Francis Danby . |
| 23 | The camera was set up in a growth room . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yesterday , a ‘ cop shop ’ was set up in the Strand . |
| 26 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 27 | A camp was set up in the Bois de Lapiérouse . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Bric-a-brac was donated and sold on the stall which was set up in the factory canteen . |