Example sentences of "was set [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 2 | SeaDocs was set up to act as a depositary-custodian of the paper based original bill as well as a registry of bill of lading negotiations . |
| 3 | Approximately 50 years ago , the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad was set up to deal with the then growing incidence of company fraud . |
| 4 | [ Most of the recommendations were implemented : the Development Council was set up to advise on a ten-year development programme ; a large amount of building work was authorised and a special college opened in Leicester to train youth leaders , whose numbers doubled by 1966 . ] |
| 5 | IBM and Fiat Engineering were invited to participate and in 1987 the interdisciplinary Neapolis project was set up to focus on the vast archaeological site of Pompeii . |
| 6 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |