Example sentences of "[was/were] set up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost invariably , I ended up each year in front of the Star Chamber of ministers who were set up under the chairmanship of Willie Whitelaw to try to sort out the differences which remained between ministers and the Chief Secretary . |
| 2 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 3 | They were set up under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962 . |
| 4 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 5 | The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies . |
| 6 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
| 7 | When we were set up with drinks , Pyke said , ‘ Tell me about yourself . ’ |
| 8 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 9 | A number of meetings were set up during which we discussed how I would approach such a project . |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher did not look with favour on Royal Commissions as a method of resolving difficult issues , and none were set up during her premiership between 1979–90 . |
| 11 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 12 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 13 | Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time . |
| 14 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 15 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 16 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 17 | The British Crime Surveys ( BCS ) were set up at least partly because of official scepticism over police statistics , and in an attempt to counteract the portrayal in parts of the media of crime rates soaring out of control . |
| 18 | In France State-owned arms factories were set up at Maubeuge and Charleville in 1718 ; the government made itself responsible for the supply of uniforms in 1747 ; and the old system of military hospitals , which had left them largely in private hands , was abolished in 1788 . |
| 19 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 20 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 21 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 22 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 23 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 24 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 25 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 26 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 27 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
| 28 | Having established that they had no signs of any fatigue cracks on the rear spar chord , the left and right stabilisers from two different aircraft were set up on the test rig . |
| 29 | Many new shipping companies formed in the late 1800's were set up on the strength of the coal markets . |
| 30 | In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement . |