Example sentences of "board [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
| 2 | Local Marine Boards were set up in all main ports and a Shipping Master appointed by each to take administrative responsibility for masters ' and mates ' examinations and the business of engaging and discharging seamen under pain of penalty for " crimping " and other similar offences . |
| 3 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 4 | The price review board was set up as a result of the new patent legislation . |
| 5 | In 1949 the Drama Board was set up by Leo Baker as an examining body to give national qualification to tutors of youth drama . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dunlop cheese was produced on most Ayrshire farms right into the 20th century but began to decline after the Scottish Milk Marketing Board was set up in 1933 . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 9 | The National War Labor Board was set up in 1942 to settle the disputes that inevitably rose in a more directed economy . |
| 10 | A Recreation and Sports Studies Board was set up in 1978 , and in the same year a further conference was held on human movement studies — with support from the Gulbenkian Foundation . |