Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] [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| 2 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts .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 main features of the provincial press were set well before 1939 . |
| 10 | The verdicts were set aside on 25 December by means of a law passed on 23 December empowering the President to quash any decision of the Special Court . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As so defined by the Home Secretary ( Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe ) these tasks were set out in 1952 as follows : |
| 13 | The talks were held at the CPF site and included issues which were set forth in four documents , all of them unanimously approved by community representatives and by BPXC . |
| 14 | The Grand Trunk Canal promoted by him and his merchant associate Thomas Bently was set afoot in 1766 after the Duke of Bridgewater had already moved the line of his Runcorn cut to meet up at its northern end and complete the joining of the Trent and Mersey . |
| 15 | It was set up between 1876 and 1884 as a combined concert hall , gallery and art school , and until the war , it also served to house the parliament . |
| 16 | The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind : |
| 17 | At about this time , a small working party ( sometimes referred to as the " Resources Committee " ) was set up with two apparent functions . |
| 18 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 19 | Research shows that ‘ a very substantial ’ market exists for the product — the first to be launched by Royal Bank Insurance Consultants since it was set up on 1 October 1991 . |
| 20 | The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | This was set up on 10 February in Dresden when delegates from Russia and Germany held their first joint session to discuss the restitution of art treasures missing since World War II . |
| 22 | 1.1 The National Curriculum English Working Group was 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 . |
| 23 | The new ‘ Hayter ’ Centre , which was set up in 1963 , was committed to applying the most advanced research techniques drawn from a range of academic disciplines to the study of the USSR and Eastern Europe ( from Engineering and History as well as from the Social Sciences ) . |
| 24 | When the Red Deer Commission ( RDC ) was set up in 1959 , it argued that there were too many red deer in Scotland . |
| 25 | The United Nations Organisation was set up in 1945 , just after the second world war , with the aim of keeping peace throughout the world . |
| 26 | In that spirit WIN was set up in 1945 . ’ |
| 27 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 28 | The Foyle Fisheries Commission is a cross-border statutory body which was set up in 1952 under parallel legislation introduced in Northern Ireland and the Republic . |
| 29 | The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation . |
| 30 | The Hazards Forum was set up in 1989 by the engineering institutions to assemble and exchange ideas on the management of risks and hazards . |