Example sentences of "was set [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Blake did was to set up a very clever cover story which would pre-empt any subsequent accusations that he was in touch with the Russians . |
| 2 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |
| 3 | Their idea was to set up a cooperative to supply computer skills to voluntary groups and other co-ops , and to develop new software for the purpose . |
| 4 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 5 | What they needed , they decided , was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation . |
| 6 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
| 7 | The Minister 's response was to set up a coordinating committee of the nationalised fuel industry chairmen . |
| 8 | Against this background merchants , or factors , trading a long way from their home base realized that the safest form of organization was to set up a factory or small enclave for merchants of the type that the Hanseatic League had maintained in London up to 1598 . |
| 9 | From the beginning , the aim was to set up a prestigious institution , able to house the big exhibitions which have often passed Germany by . |
| 10 | The bathroom ceiling needed replastering , and the idea was to set up a platform , consisting of milk crates and scaffold boards . |
| 11 | Perhaps the single most important decision was to set up a Wirral-wide counselling service for drug users . |
| 12 | The second proposal was to set up a long-term residential therapeutic centre which eventually involved inviting Phoenix House , an established and reputable charity , to set up in Wirral . |
| 13 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 14 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 15 | One of the first changes Laura made to Rhydoldog was to set up a telex room and offices at the end of the corridor on the ground floor . |
| 16 | The Government 's response was to set up a committee chaired by a judge ( Mrs. Justice Heilbron ) to look into the matter . |
| 17 | [ The Secretary of State 's immediate response to the report was to set up a new working party on English in the national curriculum , chaired by Professor Brian Cox , one of the members of the Kingman Committee . ] |
| 18 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 19 | The first move was to set up a meet with Jo . |
| 20 | The first thing Harold Wilson did when he arrived in office was to set up a Policy Unit inside Number Ten , to work on short-term , day-to-day problems . |
| 21 | The second — obviously , now I see it — was to set up a complementary unit to deal with long-term aims . |
| 22 | Mrs Davidson , of Stirling , said that so many people had contacted them that the association 's annual meeting had decided the only way to raise its profile and make a difference for patients was to set up a body covering Scotland as a whole . |
| 23 | Courtaulds ' reaction was to set up a team to find and remedy the cause of the odour problem , working with the local residents . |
| 24 | Next thing to do was to set up a form . |
| 25 | The task was to set up the office , get a system going to deal with the fan mail , gifts and general correspondence , liaise with dress designers and process the requests for patronages as they came in . |
| 26 | One of the first steps taken was to set up the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme ( EMEP ) to measure emissions and deposition of sulphur and nitrogen oxides in Europe . |
| 27 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 28 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 29 | Our first step was to set up an independent trust to repair the building . |
| 30 | The main consequence of these discussions was to set up an International Commission of Chemical Nomenclature to continue the work started at the conference . |