Example sentences of "was [adv] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Fish Association was duly set up under the chairmanship of the Duke of Kent . |
| 2 | The judicial commission of inquiry , announced by the Prime Minister , Vere Bird Sr , on April 25 , was duly set up under the chairmanship of a British QC , Louis Blom-Cooper . |
| 3 | Its blood , streaming upon the glass , was slowly set aside by the windscreen wipers . |
| 4 | The product was discreetly set out towards the back with the label half turned away . |
| 5 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 6 | Interest in the subject having thus been aroused among learned men in western Asia , a scientific institute was eventually set up in Baghdad after the Muslim conquest of much of that region . |
| 7 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 8 | That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted . |
| 9 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 10 | The National Curriculum English Working Group was formally set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
| 11 | In 1969 a new unit was formally set up in Edinburgh to study the geology of the continental shelf around Scotland . |
| 12 | In cotton textile workers ' families , where there was a long tradition of married women 's work , one night a week was usually set aside by husbands and wives as ‘ Mary-Ann night ’ . |
| 13 | The group was hardly set back at all by the major extinction at the end of the Cretaceous , and has never been more varied than it is today . |
| 14 | This hillside defence system was probably set up by the Votadini , a tribe whose continual harassment by the neighbouring Selgovae led it to seek alliance with Rome at a very early stage . |
| 15 | The test was carefully set up in front of her . |
| 16 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 17 | Yesterday , an appeal was also set up for adults and children 's clothes and shoes , which should be taken to the council headquarters at Bodlondeb , Conwy . |
| 18 | Does the Prime Minister recall that the cause of reconciliation in Northern Ireland was tragically set back in the aftermath of the 1974 election ? |
| 19 | Because the trust was originally set up for the purposes of mitigating inheritance tax the trust may come within the provisions of ss739 and 740 with the exemption mentioned in s741 not being available . |
| 20 | It was originally set up by Churchill , who wanted better statistics to manage the war economy . |
| 21 | The campaign , which aims to raise £500,000 , was originally set up in memory of a seven-year-old Kent boy who dies in 1979 . |
| 22 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 23 | The exception was the Geological Society , whose meeting room was even set out like the House of Commons for debate rather than in rows for a lecture . |
| 24 | The SDA was initially set up in 1975 ‘ to provide a regional dimension to complement the UK-wide sectoral interventionism of the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) ’ ( Moor , 1986 , p. 8 ) . |
| 25 | La Cutufa , a fraudulent loan and investment scheme , was allegedly set up by Pinochet 's National Information Centre ( CNI ) secret police in the mid-1980s . |
| 26 | However , under SP7/89 , a parent company can surrender ACT that was previously set off against its mainstream tax liability in an assessment which had become final . |
| 27 | First , such a change does not take place overnight among all artists ; and secondly it is very hard to be certain that a given statue from the Acropolis was actually set up before the invasion . |
| 28 | It was impossible to speak to Mr Sloan , she said , and added that the Panel was never set up to be a court . |
| 29 | In Sweden 's case the move was to be seen in the context of the government 's declared intent to apply for EC membership ( the date for this application was subsequently set formally for July 1 , 1991 ) . |