Example sentences of "[noun] was set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are sceptical that a few extra consultants or staff grade appointments will really reduce their hours and complain that the new deal was set up by doctors ' representatives not working in hard pressed specialties . |
| 2 | The deal was set up by Ghazi Kenaan , Syria 's head of security in Beirut , who naturally took his cut off the top . |
| 3 | A Europe-Argentina Club was set up in Brussels on Feb. 13 to promote joint ventures and investment in Argentina . |
| 4 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 5 | In 1983 , the Gaia Programme was set up in conjunction with the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena ( ASSAP ) . |
| 6 | The silver tray was set down by Lily , who was senior parlourmaid and in her thirties . |
| 7 | James Woodforde , ever a reliable source for the minutiae of late 18th-century life , wrote on 25 January 1794 that he could never remember having seen the barometer lower ; a savage and relentless winter was setting in throughout Britain and the rest of Europe . |
| 8 | The first English factory to manufacture looking glass plates was set up by Sir Robert Mansell in the reign of James I. |
| 9 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 10 | In due course the test was set up in England . |
| 11 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 12 | In 1988 the team management was set up with John Sturgeon , an austere West Coaster as manager ; Alex Wyllie as coach ; John Mayhew as doctor and David Abercrombie as physiotherapist . |
| 13 | This committee was set up on May 18-19 , consisting of Marcovic , Kadijevic and Gracanin as well as the two Vice-Presidents of the Federal Executive Council , Aleksandar Mitrovic and Zivko Pregl , the Justice and Administration Secretary Vlado Kambovski , and the Secretary-General of the government , Zoran Miskovic . |
| 14 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |
| 15 | The Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee was set up in July 1991 to fulfil this role and has just produced its first report ( p ? ? ? ) . |
| 16 | An emergency food committee was set up in Moscow on Sept. 7 , because of the " catastrophic " situation of food supply in the city . |
| 17 | After some delay , Western Electric equipment was set up at Victor 's studios in Camden , New Jersey . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A National Security Council was set up under Gamsakhurdia 's chairmanship . |
| 20 | The king agreed to most of the measures demanded by the commons , and a council was set up with Archbishop Stratford and the Earl of Huntingdon acting as chief councillors , assisted by the Earls of Lancaster and Warenne . |
| 21 | The McCarthy Lodge home was set up by Mrs Jonker to care for vulnerable elderly victims of crime . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Profile was set up by Heather Burke , Phonelink 's current client service director , and sold planning information to 3,500 UK companies in the building industry . |
| 24 | The Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology was set up in July 1982 under the chairmanship of Dame Mary Warnock to investigate in vitro fertilisation and human genetic research . |
| 25 | The IITP was set up in July last year and launched last October . |
| 26 | Domestic air flights were suspended on the receipt of bomb threats , four buses were fire-bombed and a small explosive device was set off in front of the CGT headquarters in Buenos Aires . |
| 27 | A marshalling point for waste was set up at Baldonnell , near Dublin , which is convenient for the south and west . |
| 28 | In 1987 , a pilot reed-bed system doused with domestic waste was set up by Fife Regional Council at Torry Bay on land reclaimed from the Firth of Forth . |
| 29 | A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held . |
| 30 | A shop was set up in Tottenham named ‘ Stardust Jewellers . ’ |