Example sentences of "[noun] was set [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 2 | The programme was set up in 1987 and named in memory of two employees — Ben Hajadi , an engineer who died in a car accident , and Solomon , who lost his life in a helicopter crash . |
| 3 | She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace . |
| 4 | In Michigan , the Women 's Task Force on Rape was set up in 1973 . |
| 5 | The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation . |
| 10 | Cooperative was set up in 1989 by old hands from Tandem Computers Inc , including VP of research Kim Worsencroft and CEO Dennis McEvoy , so Ellipse is inherently resilient to errors and failures . |
| 11 | A working party chaired by Lady Vaizey was set up in 1977 to look into the question of making such payments , but although it produced a paper on the subject , no further action was taken . |
| 12 | ANDRA was set up in 1977 under the auspices of the atomic energy commission ( Commissariat à l'Énergie atomique ) and its sister organization , the state nuclear corporation ( Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires ) . |
| 13 | A committee of inquiry was set up in 1974 to consider the whole question of the education of handicapped children and young people and to review existing provision . |
| 14 | Consideration of the franchise bad followed Unionist demands for votes for servicemen , and a Speaker 's Conference was set up in 1916 , with the Unionist members led by Sir William Bull and Sir Harry Samuel . |
| 15 | EFQM was set up in 1988 and now has a membership of some 200 leading European businesses , all of which recognize the role of quality in achieving competitive advantage . |
| 16 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 17 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population was set up in 1937 ; the terms of reference were : The long years of economic depression and high unemployment rates , the sharp divide between favoured and unfavoured regions , and the drift of population from ‘ north ’ to ‘ south ’ combined to supply the political pressure for enquiry . |
| 18 | The contemporary concern was so great that a Royal Commission on Population was set up in 1944 to examine the problem of Britain 's declining rate of population growth . |
| 19 | The group was set up in 1986 after a proposal at one of the regular — though often far apart — meetings of the four main Church leaders by Church of Ireland Primate Archbishop Robin Eames , and seconded by the late Catholic Primate Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich . |
| 20 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 21 | A joint environmental working group was set up in 1990 , comprising representatives of all parts of the business , with the objective of overseeing the development of the Company 's environmental programme . |
| 22 | As a result , a working group was set up in 1977 under the Chairmanship of Mr Gordon Oakes , the then Minister of State at the DES , to consider the management and financing of advanced further education . |
| 23 | This court was set up in 1971 by the Courts Act . |
| 24 | Amber Film Productions was set up in 1969 as a collective group of technicians , documenting working class life in the North East of England . |
| 25 | The total has grown since the present service was set up in 1948 , although in fact the proportion of children in care per thousand of the total population under 18 has not altered so much . |
| 26 | The Department of East Asian Studies was set up in 1967 . |
| 27 | The Holiday Fellowship was set up in 1913 . |
| 28 | The fellowship was set up in 1977 and is sponsored by William Grant and Sons , distillers of Glenfiddich malt whisky . |
| 29 | In Manchester , for example , a permanent Tactical Aid Group of seventy-four specially trained officers was set up in 1976 . |
| 30 | A confederated employers ' organisation was set up in 1919 at the behest of the state which wanted a partner for the application of the new law on collective wage agreements . |