Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 2 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 3 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 4 | Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city . |
| 5 | Early in 1942 two committees were set up by the Central Housing Advisory Committee to report to the Minister of Health ( the minister responsible for housing ) on the question of post-war housing rebuilding . |
| 6 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 7 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 8 | The numerous non-manufacturing subsidiaries ( such as travel agencies , restaurants and computer software firms ) that were set up in the late 1980s are most vulnerable . |
| 9 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 10 | Other areas of the establishment were infiltrated by fascists , and groups were set up in the Civil Service and in several educational centres and public schools , including the Universities of London and Birmingham , Stowe School , and Winchester , Beaumont and Worksop Colleges . |
| 11 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 12 | In 1776 twelve schools of this kind were set up in the French provinces , largely in an effort to cope with the military pretensions of the poorer nobility . |
| 13 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 14 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 15 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 16 | Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November . |
| 17 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 18 | The Occupational Pensions Board , which was set up under the 1973 Social Security Act to monitor and establish minimum standards for private occupational pension schemes , was asked to consider the question of equal status for men and women in occupational pension schemes in 1975 . |
| 19 | If the Church Commissioners subsequently agree to seal a Declaration of Redundancy , advice is sought on the future of the building from the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches , a national body which was set up under the Pastoral Measure . |
| 20 | The Serious Fraud Office ( SFO ) was set up under the 1987 Criminal Justice Act in response to a report by the Fraud Trials Committee formed in 1983 as a result of dissatisfaction with the ability of the City of London Fraud Squad to get convictions . |
| 21 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 22 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 23 | It seemed the future was not without promise , and a European base was set up with the amiable Andrew Ferguson as team-manager . |
| 24 | In 1982 a further project entitled ‘ Study and information skills in schools ’ , was set up at the NFER to extend the above work , with the following aims : |
| 25 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 26 | In the Junior Clubman class a three nation battle was set up at the very start between Hillsborough 's Richard Lyons , Dublin 's John Grandon and Glasgow 's Craig Murray . |
| 27 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 28 | When a review of the health service was set up following the 1987 general election , it was claimed that our kind of public review would be too slow . |
| 29 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 30 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |