Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] set [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic aims were already set out in the original Treaty of Rome ( 1957 ) establishing the European Economic Community . |
| 2 | The bronzes were later set up in the Porticus Metelli , the first secular building in Rome specifically intended for the display of booty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted . |
| 5 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 6 | In 1969 a new unit was formally set up in Edinburgh to study the geology of the continental shelf around Scotland . |
| 7 | The test was carefully set up in front of her . |
| 8 | Does the Prime Minister recall that the cause of reconciliation in Northern Ireland was tragically set back in the aftermath of the 1974 election ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |