Example sentences of "it [was/were] set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 2 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 3 | Even before the new Guide had been issued , CAJEC announced that it was setting up a Standard Review Group to monitor continuously the need for new ethical guidance . |
| 4 | Metaphor Computer Systems Inc , the company IBM bought off of Dave Liddle when it was setting up Taligent with Apple Computer Inc , is expected to enter the Unix arena this week by hooking its decision support software to the Sybase Inc and Red Brick databases . |
| 5 | The Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was setting up working groups to examine the scope for changing some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 6 | Sermons and prayers stressed the patience , humility and virtue of the English king : when people were exhorted to pray for the great expedition which Edward , together with the Black Prince and the duke of Lancaster , led to France in 1355 , they were told that it was setting out ‘ to procure peace ’ . |
| 7 | The separatist Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) , which had co-operated with the EPRDF in a strategic alliance to bring down the Mengistu government , announced on May 29 that it was to set up its own provisional government in Eritrea , although it would recognize and co-operate with the EPRDF administration in Addis Ababa . |
| 8 | It was set up in partnership with local authorities , industry , businesses and community and voluntary groups to produce effective solutions to environmental problems in north-west Kent . |
| 9 | It was set up after a three-year campaign by an all-party war crimes group . |
| 10 | Five South American presidents signed an accord to resurrect an Andean free-trade zone by the end of 1995 , more than 20 years after it was set up . |
| 11 | It was set up with funds from leading venture capitalists Schroders , Apax and 3i . |
| 12 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |
| 13 | It was set up by about thirty young unemployed men in January 1965 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Like the NEB , it was set up to operate separately from the direct institutions of central government and the Scottish Office , although dependent on them for funds ( up to £75 million in the mid-1980s ) and its board included representatives of business and labour as well as government . |
| 16 | Over the years since it was set up in 1982 , the Foundation has provided funds for the purchase of teaching equipment , the development of Library services , the restoration of much-loved features of the University gardens , a scholarship for under-privileged students from overseas , the publication of monographs , and improvements to sports facilities . |
| 17 | Long involved in Institute affairs , he headed its Taxation Committee from 1978 , became a Council member in 1988 and was a founder member of the Tax Faculty when it was set up in 1991 . |
| 18 | It is July 1994 and the company has taken a relaxed attitude to preparation of its accounts since it was set up in 1991 . |
| 19 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 20 | He was appointed director of the council when it was set up last year . |
| 21 | Thus it has been able to overcome the major hurdle of the possibility of losing top contacts and clients when it was set up on its own . |
| 22 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |
| 23 | This arrangement was used for the BBC ( the corporation ) in 1927 when it was set up under Royal Charter , and for the commercial broadcasting sector from 1954 onwards . |
| 24 | It was set up in 1985 as a pioneer of transaction processing monitors , but developed into a computer services company . |
| 25 | It was set up in conjunction with Swiss entrepreneur Niels Rasmussen , owner of Nercom Informatik , who has also set up Goldmine Technologies AG in Zug , Switzerland ( UX No 374 ) . |
| 26 | JPAC may be worsening the problems it was set up to solve |
| 27 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 28 | For example , the Rupert Stanley College of Further Education at Whiterock , where the conference was taking place , had to wait for Making Belfast Work money before it was set up . |
| 29 | One of several , it was set up 15 years ago and , using immunotherapy , has an 81 per cent success rate with women who 've had multiple miscarriages . |
| 30 | Our control should be extended to the country and a tripartite commission exists to reform the Labour Code , but it was set up three years ago , and so far there have n't been any results . |