Example sentences of "were set up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many new shipping companies formed in the late 1800's were set up on the strength of the coal markets . |
| 9 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
| 10 | Sure enough , a second ray-gun and clock , identical to the first , were set up against the back wall . |
| 11 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 12 | Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 16 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 17 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 18 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |