Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an initiative by JWT , a committee was set up under former Treasury mandarin Sir Leon Pliatzky to examine production practices and to recommend action to control cost inflation . |
| 2 | It was set up under Educational Support Grant funding in 1986 , but was financed by the City Council when the grant expired in April 1989 . |
| 3 | This arrangement was used for the BBC ( the corporation ) in 1927 when it was set up under Royal Charter , and for the commercial broadcasting sector from 1954 onwards . |
| 4 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 5 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |
| 6 | The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind : |
| 7 | A regulatory body , OFGAS , was set up with similar responsibilities to OFTEL . |
| 8 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 9 | The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Research shows that ‘ a very substantial ’ market exists for the product — the first to be launched by Royal Bank Insurance Consultants since it was set up on 1 October 1991 . |
| 11 | This was set up on 10 February in Dresden when delegates from Russia and Germany held their first joint session to discuss the restitution of art treasures missing since World War II . |
| 12 | In 1962 ELDO was set up on this basis — with the L standing for launcher . |
| 13 | 1.1 The National Curriculum English Working Group was set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study , and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
| 14 | The quota system , which critics claim permits poached ivory to enter legal trade , was set up as African elephant numbers fell from an estimated 1.3 million in 1979 to about 600,000 today . |
| 15 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 16 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |
| 17 | It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ The Ulster Resistance Movement was set up by loyalist politicians , and it 's their guns that are now killing innocent people . ’ |
| 19 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 20 | Quite sure that you 'll find in the end that I 'm right and it was set up by murdering bog-trotters . |
| 21 | It was set up by three sisters with funds from their family 's whisky business . |
| 22 | WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name . |
| 23 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 24 | DSD was set up by 600 enterprises in response to legislation requiring industry to collect and recycle the packaging it produces . |
| 25 | A new All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation was set up by presidential decree on Feb. 8 in place of Gosteleradio , the USSR State Television and Radio Committee . |
| 26 | In May 1835 , the relieving officer of the new Chailey Union was set on by thirty men in Ringmer , demanding ‘ money or blood ’ ; they got their relief in cash instead of the food tickets he offered . |
| 27 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 28 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 29 | In theory , it was set off by two boys who stole a can of soft drink from a third boy . |
| 30 | This argument was set out with particular clarity by James Mill in his celebrated Essay on Government , first published in 1820 . |