Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After some delay , Western Electric equipment was set up at Victor 's studios in Camden , New Jersey . |
| 2 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 3 | The first stocking frame in the county was set up at Hinckley in 1640 by William Iliffe , and the town has prospered on hosiery manufacturing ever since . |
| 4 | In 1950 , when the Haskin 's Laboratory was set up at Yale University , it was thought to be a 5 year project to produce a box which could perform these two computations . |
| 5 | A marshalling point for waste was set up at Baldonnell , near Dublin , which is convenient for the south and west . |
| 6 | The appeal was set down at Bristol , which is the nearest High Court centre where family business is taken but there was no High Court judge then sitting at Bristol , or indeed anywhere else on the Western Circuit . |
| 7 | I was set down at Nurina and returned to my roomette before the train tackled the " long straight " , a point where the line runs across the dead heart of the Nullarbor , a distance of 478 kilometres . |