Example sentences of "it [was/were] set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 2 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |
| 3 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 4 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 5 | Fig. 126 shows the pediment as it was set up in the old museum , an arrangement that is certainly wrong . |
| 6 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 7 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 8 | It will also outline the role and operation of the Social Work Services Inspectorate , which has come in for severe criticism since it was set up by the Scottish Office a year ago . |
| 9 | It was set up by the government to advise it on environmental policy . |
| 10 | ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’ |
| 11 | I guessed that it was set back in the farmhouse , unless he had some sort of remote control toy . |