Example sentences of "were set [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israel appears to have shared many of the techniques and conceptions of sacrifice of her neighbours , but her own observances were set firmly in the framework of God 's revelation at Sinai . |
| 2 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 3 | The numerous non-manufacturing subsidiaries ( such as travel agencies , restaurants and computer software firms ) that were set up in the late 1980s are most vulnerable . |
| 4 | Other areas of the establishment were infiltrated by fascists , and groups were set up in the Civil Service and in several educational centres and public schools , including the Universities of London and Birmingham , Stowe School , and Winchester , Beaumont and Worksop Colleges . |
| 5 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 6 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 7 | In 1776 twelve schools of this kind were set up in the French provinces , largely in an effort to cope with the military pretensions of the poorer nobility . |
| 8 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 9 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 10 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 11 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 12 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 13 | Beveridge 's proposals were set out in a section of his report entitled ‘ The Problem of Age ’ . |
| 14 | When the sworn statements were collected and sorted , the results were set out in a list preserved in the count 's treasury at St Etienne in Troyes . |
| 15 | The social worker 's reasons were set out in a statement extending to some 12 pages which concluded : |
| 16 | The aims of the national curriculum and its related assessment procedures were set out in a consultative paper published in July 1987 in which it was anticipated that standards of educational provision and attainment would be raised by : |
| 17 | His religious opinions were set out in A Short History of the Evangelical Movement ( 1915 ) , and his personal interpretation of Whig philosophy in Politics and Personalities ( 1917 ) . |
| 18 | The first one was half of us were blindfolded and we were set out in a line and the rest had to move about 5–10 metres away and stand in a line . |
| 19 | The projects were set out in a pamphlet with the alluring title , We Can Conquer Unemployment : 350,000 men were to be employed on road-building , 60 , 000 on housing , 60,000 on telephone development and 62,000 on electrical development . |
| 20 | The traders ' views were set out in a letter to Darlington Council from the Clark 's Yard Traders Association and the planning brief was approved . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 26 | The precautions that should be taken to avoid this situation were set out in the section on consecutive spill , page 186 . |
| 27 | The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements . |
| 28 | Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |