Example sentences of "was set [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 2 | In various parts of the Bible all these offerings are said to " alone " — to cover sin — indicating that any act of worship was set squarely in the context of God 's forgiving grace . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A subsidiary company , Frippak Feeds , was set up in Batley , West Yorkshire to manufacture the feed — the only one which can be used exclusively , without the need for supplements . |
| 5 | The Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology was set up in July 1982 under the chairmanship of Dame Mary Warnock to investigate in vitro fertilisation and human genetic research . |
| 6 | Meiko was set up in 1985 by members of the group which developed the transputer chip for Inmos . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Motability was set up in 1977 on the initiative of the government to help holders of mobility allowance and war pensioners ' mobility supplement use their allowance to obtain a vehicle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | VIA Rail was set up in 1977 after the competing giants , Canadian Pacific , now grown into a huge conglomerate , and its nationalised rival Canadian National had found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight . |
| 11 | The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation . |
| 12 | The contemporary concern was so great that a Royal Commission on Population was set up in 1944 to examine the problem of Britain 's declining rate of population growth . |
| 13 | In addition , among several projects for livestock improvement and marketing promoted by the HIDB 's Livestock Improvement Working Party , a lamb marketing scheme was set up in Lewis in 1978 for the transport of store lambs to the mainland and their sale at auction . |
| 14 | The Agricultural Training Board was set up in 1966 to improve the technical performance of workers in the industry and thus to widen the number of job opportunities for them . |
| 15 | The United Nations Organisation was set up in 1945 , just after the second world war , with the aim of keeping peace throughout the world . |
| 16 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | The joint venture was set up in 1971 , following Burmah 's failed takeover bid for Laporte which had led to Solvay taking a shareholding in Laporte . |
| 18 | A camp was set up in the Bois de Lapiérouse . |
| 19 | Thus , the Alliance for Progress , which gave rise to many agrarian reform programmes , was set up in the early 1960s . |
| 20 | The Hazards Forum was set up in 1989 by the engineering institutions to assemble and exchange ideas on the management of risks and hazards . |
| 21 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 22 | In the centre a fountain was set up in 1797 , with a statue by F. X. Lederer , an allegory of fruit-growing and viticulture . |
| 23 | The LSE group ( which was set up in October 1990 to support the Irish students ' campaign and to campaign for abortion rights for women in England and Ireland ) will be organising a further picket on that day to highlight this fundamental attack on Irish women 's right to choose . |
| 24 | The first commission of sewers was set up in Lincolnshire by Henry de Bathe in 1258 . |
| 25 | In Manchester , for example , a permanent Tactical Aid Group of seventy-four specially trained officers was set up in 1976 . |
| 26 | A public clepsydra was set up in Rome in 158 BC by Scipio Nasica . |
| 27 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 28 | As early as 1968 steps were being taken by the Ministry of Agriculture to conserve two of them ( the Bazadais and the Aubrac ) , while a national commission was set up in 1976 to consider the need for wider conservation measures . |
| 29 | The breed was one of the first to be the subject of a government conservation programme and a five-year scheme was set up in 1976 ; by 1979 there were 80,000 animals . |
| 30 | A basic training working party was set up in 1986 with the task of designing a national basic training common core . |