Example sentences of "board [was/were] set [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The National War Labor Board was set up in 1942 to settle the disputes that inevitably rose in a more directed economy . |
| 6 | 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 . |