Example sentences of "company [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced .
2 The company was set up at the height of the property boom .
3 After two years of anxiety , one of the finest seams of steam coal in the world was struck in the Maendy pit , Cwmparc , and the Ocean Collieries Company was set up in 1867 with an authorized capital of £240,000 .
4 The company was set up in 1970 to sell Courtelle acrylic fibre made in Calais , staffed mostly by French people and managed for many years by a Frenchman , .
5 The company was set up by Mr W.C. Dann and , within a few years , had a workforce of over a hundred .
6 The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff .
7 The company was set up by Jeremy Green last October , on the basis of market research showing considerable ‘ pent-up demand ’ for this sort of service .
8 The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema .
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