Example sentences of "set [adv prt] by the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning . |
| 2 | The earlier student strike , in April , was set off by the dismissal of law teacher Dominic Mngomezulu , which students believed was due to his union activities . |
| 3 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 4 | Your article , ‘ Leaking at the seams ’ ( January 26th ) , made reference to the vehicle being set up by the council of Lloyd 's to reinsure open years of account . |
| 5 | The meeting was organized by the Pompidou Group , set up by the Council of Europe in 1971 to combat drug abuse and drug trafficking [ see also p. 37394 ] . |
| 6 | The Working Party on Internal Migration in Britain , which was set up by the Institute of British Geographers in l988 , aims at the better understanding of the patterns , causes and implications of migration in Britain . |
| 7 | A social fund set up by the government with the World Bank would provide US$400 million for sectors of the population most vulnerable to the effects of economic reform and would help create employment for workers displaced by the Gulf War . |
| 8 | Fontaine had made known his intention to give evidence to the new National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation , which had been set up by the government on April 25 to investigate human right violations under the Pinochet regime . |
| 9 | These talks , boycotted or disrupted by the employers and unions since their initiation , had been set up by the government on Sept. 20 following widespread unrest in May and July [ see pp. 37450 ; 37607 ] . |
| 10 | The Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( FMSM — an alliance led by Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny of Vonjy ) , was set up by the government as a counterweight to the new opposition parties . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 13 | Klebeck , 86 , had never faced trial for his many alleged crimes in the Alderney camps because the British government had not released relevant classified documents even to the war crimes inquiry set up by the government in 1988 [ see p. 36190 ] . |
| 14 | A new report from a working party set up by the Prince of Wales recommends that an intermediate tier of research organisations , between higher education ( HE ) and industry , should be set up to assist technology transfer . |
| 15 | So he wrote to George Thurstan , an ex-marine who was running the Drake Fellowship ; this was a scheme set up by the Prince in the wake of the inner-city riots , to give young people from those areas adventure training . |
| 16 | The Overseas Research Students ( ORS ) Awards Scheme was set up by the secretary of state for education and science in 1979 to provide awards for partial remission of tuition fees to overseas post-graduate students of outstanding merit and research potential . |
| 17 | The terms of reference of the Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of English Language , set up by the Secretary of State for Education in January 1987 clearly reflect worries about defining the need for language understanding , both in schools and in teacher education . |
| 18 | Elected people will no longer have an influence on local further education ; instead , the position will be similar to that set up by the Secretary of State for Health , where appointed quangos are in control . |
| 19 | Within two days she had found some information on the Prince 's Trust , which is a scheme set up by the Duke of Cornwall , HRH Prince Charles himself . |
| 20 | Suffice to say that it became evident fairly soon that the existing monetary techniques of regulation were not sufficiently effective , and in 1957 a committee was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inquire into the working of the monetary and credit system in the UK . |
| 21 | Formal groups were those set up by the management of an organization to undertake duties in the pursuit of organization goals . |
| 22 | Set up by the University in 1984 , UnivEd is the first point of contact for industrialists seeking to exploit the University 's top-class resources of staff and equipment . |
| 23 | Set up by the University in 1984 , UnivEd is the point of access for clients from industry , commerce and government seeking to tap Edinburgh 's resources of expertise and equipment . |
| 24 | Members of the Women 's Patriotic Association — originally set up by the wife of the Chinese army general as a pro-Beijing front — gathered on March 12 . |
| 25 | A bank of information is also being set up by the Panel with a view to helping those with disabilities at the Bar . |
| 26 | The first meeting takes place this week and I am asked to make a presentation to the Committee which was set up by the minister of finance . ’ |
| 27 | Any approval by Cork County Council will be appealed to the new Appeals Authority set up by the Minister for Local Government ; |
| 28 | It would be displayed in a special gallery in the Palace of Arts and the proceeds from the small fee charged for admission would be added to the fund set up by the Queen for the benefit of her many charitable concerns . |
| 29 | The huge down payment will come from a trust fund of one million , set up by the Queen for Prince Andrew , the day he was born . |
| 30 | The Wellcome Trust , set up by the will of Sir Henry Wellcome to devote the profits of the Burroughs Wellcome businesses to medical and veterinary research , became a major sponsor , second in Britain only to the Medical Research Council itself , and with notable influence elsewhere in the world . |