Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price review board was set up as a result of the new patent legislation . |
| 2 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 3 | VIA Rail was set up in 1977 after the competing giants , Canadian Pacific , now grown into a huge conglomerate , and its nationalised rival Canadian National had found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight . |
| 4 | In 1983 , the Gaia Programme was set up in conjunction with the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena ( ASSAP ) . |
| 5 | The silver tray was set down by Lily , who was senior parlourmaid and in her thirties . |
| 6 | Though an Interagency Country Risk Exposure Review Committee was set up in 1978 to assemble the facts , no one insisted that the banks took notice of them or acted accordingly . |
| 7 | Here the Lignite Action Group was set up in March 1985 after a public meeting in Moortown to express concern over test-drilling in the area was attended by 500 people . |
| 8 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 9 | Last year , a Corrective Action Team was set up in Chlor-Chemicals to find ways in which the existing stock of drums and cylinders could support a required 25% increase in chlorine business while avoiding major capital expenditure on new packaging . |
| 10 | The United Nations Organisation was set up in 1945 , just after the second world war , with the aim of keeping peace throughout the world . |
| 11 | The privately funded Foundation for Exchange Across the Taiwan Strait was set up on Nov. 21 as the " only important " channel entrusted by the Mainland Affairs Council with the handling of civilian affairs . |
| 12 | Saturday morning was set aside for cleaning and general tidying up . |
| 13 | Women 's Aid Centres were set up in Dublin and other major cities as I was preparing to leave Ireland . |
| 14 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 15 | Directly after the war a special bureau the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit was set up under the aegis of the Ministry of Finance and charged with the recovery of illegally removed works of art under the German occupation and their subsequent return to their rightful owners . |
| 16 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 17 | In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants . |
| 18 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 19 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 20 | The £10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months . |
| 21 | A Gauge Commission was set up in 1845 to investigate the problem . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 24 | A volleyball net was set up on it , a wharf stretched out into the cove . |
| 25 | At Wester Hailes a small support group was set up in advance of the assessment to advise staff on what would be required of them . |
| 26 | In 1949 the Drama Board was set up by Leo Baker as an examining body to give national qualification to tutors of youth drama . |
| 27 | In 1962 , the Institute of Directors ( IOD ) established a Retirement Advisory Bureau ; and the first private retirement consultancy was set up in London in 1965 ( IPM 1965 ) . |
| 28 | The creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve was set up in 1986 to protect this valuable area around the peak of Creag Meagaidh in the Monadhliath mountains . |
| 29 | Weekly group meetings were set up in Newham when five or six workers were on the payroll . |
| 30 | Dunlop cheese was produced on most Ayrshire farms right into the 20th century but began to decline after the Scottish Milk Marketing Board was set up in 1933 . |