Example sentences of "[was/were] set out in the " in BNC.

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1 When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action .
2 The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions .
3 The long trestle tables were set out in the meadow and garden lights strung out in the trees , and soon the diners began to arrive .
4 The details of that title are nowhere given , beyond a statement that they were set out in the petition of the three estates which besought Richard to take the crown .
5 ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 .
6 The precautions that should be taken to avoid this situation were set out in the section on consecutive spill , page 186 .
7 The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements .
8 Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November .
9 They are not — it was a working document from officials ; Ministers ' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill .
10 Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result .
11 The details of that title are nowhere given , beyond a statement that they were set out in the petition of the three estates which besought Richard to take the crown .
12 These were set out in the code of practice issued under the Environmental Protection Act .
13 He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables .
14 Many police officers were angry that the cases had been brought at all , since the methods employed by the defendant constables were said to have involved no more than what was set out in the Home Office-approved Tactical Options Manual .
15 Miss Pritchard of Croft Lodge at Clappersgate , where he was a frequent visitor , was set out in the book as having lands too thick with trees .
16 The framework for the National Curriculum was set out in the Education Reform Act 1988 .
17 The background to cuts was set out in the 1976 White paper on public Expenditure ( Cmnd 6393 ) : ‘ Popular expectations for improved public services and welfare programmes have not been matched by growth in output or by willingness to forgo improvements in private living standards in favour of these programmes . ’
18 The role was an innovative one , and its initial scope was set out in the 1985 job specification ( Leeds City Council 1985c ) .
19 The aim of the book was set out in the preface ( which , unlike many items in these plans , was actually written ) . "
20 The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius
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