Example sentences of "were set [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " Green Con " awards were set up in 1989 to highlight bogus claims to environmental worthiness made by business . |
| 2 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts . |
| 3 | Nine were set up in 1970 alone , and this rate was maintained through the decade of the 1970s , rising to fourteen in 1973 and dropping to seven in 1977 . |
| 4 | Special squads were set up in 1976 against what the Daily Mirror called " Britain 's army of dole queue swindlers " . |
| 5 | The Central and National Wages Boards , the precursors of the national level of the current machinery , were set up in 1920 and given statutory status in the Railways Act 1921 . |
| 6 | Community Forests , funded by the Forestry and Countryside Commissions , were set up in 1990 on the outskirts of major cities . |
| 7 | Its UK headquarters , although still fairly embryonic in nature , were set up in 1990 in Chertsey , Surrey , to serve the European marketplace . |
| 8 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |
| 9 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 10 | As so defined by the Home Secretary ( Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe ) these tasks were set out in 1952 as follows : |
| 11 | They said they were setting off at nine o'clock as if to go |