Example sentences of "[noun] [be] set [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Scottish Office produced a manual and a guide to legislation and support structures were set up by central government and education authorities to provide information and to respond to board queries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ The Ulster Resistance Movement was set up by loyalist politicians , and it 's their guns that are now killing innocent people . ’ |
| 7 | The façade is wonderfully elegant , the Baroque dressing being set off by superb windows . |
| 8 | On this occasion there was serious difficulty in settling the crown presentee , and the very real danger to the political interest of the duke lay in the fact that the Opposition and the rival candidate were set up by some of his own friends . |
| 9 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 10 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
| 11 | They refer to the mines being set up by some Londoners and others " … of which nature they conceive this Copper worke to be , but to spend a farr greater proportion of fewell and therefore more odious , the redress wherof we leave to your honbl consideration . " |
| 12 | Indeed Gow 's appearance was formidable , an uncompromisingly Scottish kind of countenance being set off by bushy eyebrows and side-whiskers , and anything like conceit or pretentiousness on the part of a pupil might provoke a wounding sarcasm . |
| 13 | Committees for negotiations on teachers ' pay were set up by this Act , which also laid down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached . |
| 14 | It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | DSD was set up by 600 enterprises in response to legislation requiring industry to collect and recycle the packaging it produces . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |