Example sentences of "was set [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 2 | The Government 's response was to set up a committee chaired by a judge ( Mrs. Justice Heilbron ) to look into the matter . |
| 3 | One of the first changes Laura made to Rhydoldog was to set up a telex room and offices at the end of the corridor on the ground floor . |
| 4 | What they needed , they decided , was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation . |
| 5 | Their idea was to set up a cooperative to supply computer skills to voluntary groups and other co-ops , and to develop new software for the purpose . |
| 6 | The bathroom ceiling needed replastering , and the idea was to set up a platform , consisting of milk crates and scaffold boards . |
| 7 | Against this background merchants , or factors , trading a long way from their home base realized that the safest form of organization was to set up a factory or small enclave for merchants of the type that the Hanseatic League had maintained in London up to 1598 . |
| 8 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 9 | Courtaulds ' reaction was to set up a team to find and remedy the cause of the odour problem , working with the local residents . |
| 10 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 11 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 12 | Next thing to do was to set up a form . |
| 13 | Mrs Davidson , of Stirling , said that so many people had contacted them that the association 's annual meeting had decided the only way to raise its profile and make a difference for patients was to set up a body covering Scotland as a whole . |
| 14 | The first thing Harold Wilson did when he arrived in office was to set up a Policy Unit inside Number Ten , to work on short-term , day-to-day problems . |
| 15 | The first move was to set up a meet with Jo . |
| 16 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 17 | The task was to set up the office , get a system going to deal with the fan mail , gifts and general correspondence , liaise with dress designers and process the requests for patronages as they came in . |
| 18 | That report had two main objectives one was to establish a clear policy for G M B health and safety the second was to set out a training programme to establish the G M B's role in health and safety . |
| 19 | When the House of Lords rejected the Budget proposals of the Liberal government in 1909 , the response of that government was to set about the emasculation of the House of Lords . |
| 20 | The inquiry was set up a year ago by the Howard League for Penal Reform following a spate of suicides at Feltham since August 1991 . |
| 21 | The drinking water inspectorate was set up a year ago . |
| 22 | The review panel was set up a year ago under the chairmanship of Professor Ron Edwards of Cardiff University . |
| 23 | The air ambulance was set up a year ago as an experiment . |
| 24 | The kids in the band whose guitar it really was set up a look-out in The Roebuck and , of course , they spotted him . |
| 25 | In the Joint Committee that was set up the conflict was , in Hanrott 's words , ‘ played cool ’ , but it was conflict nevertheless . |
| 26 | Lowestoft College was set aside a lake so there was no trouble in finding a good source . |
| 27 | Fortunately for all concerned we learnt that General De Gaulle was setting up a headquarters in Putney , and we could have help from there . |
| 28 | One of his innovations was setting up a group which meets on Wednesdays for a five-hour session of yoga , baby massage , lunch and discussion — attended by an assortment of pregnant women , new mothers , midwives and obstetricians . |
| 29 | Travis asked from the fire , where he was setting up a pan of water . |
| 30 | Now run by the Thoroughbred Sports Car Club , Croft hill was first used more than 60 years ago , coincidentally around the time Ambrose Sidney Baird was setting up a car dealership in Belfast . |