Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 2 | Almost invariably , I ended up each year in front of the Star Chamber of ministers who were set up under the chairmanship of Willie Whitelaw to try to sort out the differences which remained between ministers and the Chief Secretary . |
| 3 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 4 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 5 | The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies . |
| 6 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
| 7 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 8 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 9 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 10 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 11 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 12 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
| 13 | Having established that they had no signs of any fatigue cracks on the rear spar chord , the left and right stabilisers from two different aircraft were set up on the test rig . |
| 14 | Many new shipping companies formed in the late 1800's were set up on the strength of the coal markets . |
| 15 | Sure enough , a second ray-gun and clock , identical to the first , were set up against the back wall . |
| 16 | Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city . |
| 17 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 18 | Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city . |
| 19 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 20 | Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies . |
| 21 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 22 | Early in 1942 two committees were set up by the Central Housing Advisory Committee to report to the Minister of Health ( the minister responsible for housing ) on the question of post-war housing rebuilding . |
| 23 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 24 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 25 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 30 | 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 . |