Example sentences of "set [adv prt] by the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Formal groups were those set up by the management of an organization to undertake duties in the pursuit of organization goals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner . |
| 16 | A working party is being set up by the Association of Corporate Treasurers , in conjunction with the Association of British Insurers , NAPF and the ASB , to devise appropriate levels of disclosure . |
| 17 | A detailed study of the White Paper proposals is being made by the ARPS Legislation Committee and also by a special Privatisation Sub-Committee set up by the Association of Independent Railways . |
| 18 | WavePhore said it is also joining the National Data Broadcast Committee , set up by the Association of Broadcasters to encourage entry into the high speed information market . |
| 19 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 20 | Through the condensation set up by the intake of cooler air into a warm-blooded animal , a dolphin receives a supply of fresh non-salt water when breathing . |
| 21 | The centre will test for interoperability between ICL and non-ICL hardware , software and operating systems at the bequest of customers and ICL says it 'll have 12 similar worldwide centres set up by the end of the year — 50 by the end of 1994 . |
| 22 | The grant is the first to be paid out of the Nuclear Safety Account , set up by the Group of Seven industrialized countries at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) for the purpose of providing emergency aid to secure the Soviet-designed nuclear reactors in Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | A UK working party , which included many medically qualified people , was set up by the Department of Health and Social Security , under the chairmanship of Professor Patrick Lawther in 1978 . |
| 24 | Staffing allotment will be 654 for England , 225 for Wales , 385 for Scotland and 86 for the joint UK Nature Conservation Committee , which was set up by the Department of Environment to provide a central voice for the NCC . |
| 25 | The second round of meetings between the commission on self-determination , chaired by Ada , and a task force on Guam set up by the administration of US President Bush was held on Feb. 22-23 , 1990 , to discuss the next steps in drafting the Commonwealth Bill . |
| 26 | Detectives contacted the Suzy Lamplugh Trust — set up by the mother of missing estate agent Suzy after she vanished in 1986 . |
| 27 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 28 | Banbury is certainly a planted town set up by the Bishop of Lincoln between 1123 and 1138 . |
| 29 | To ensure compliance by motorists , standards for 30 km/h streets were set out by the Ministry of Transport . |
| 30 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |