Example sentences of "[was/were] set up [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many new shipping companies formed in the late 1800's were set up on the strength of the coal markets . |
| 6 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
| 7 | Sure enough , a second ray-gun and clock , identical to the first , were set up against the back wall . |
| 8 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 9 | Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city . |
| 10 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 11 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 12 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 13 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 14 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 15 | The Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was set up under the Act to examine the practical way in which reform could be carried out . |
| 16 | In 1970 the Committee on Safety of Medicines was set up under the Act and began work in the following year … with the purpose of ‘ a. giving advice with respect to safety , quality and efficacy in relation to human use of any substance or article ( not being an instrument apparatus or appliance ) to which any provision of the Act is applicable and b. promoting the collection and investigation of information relating to adverse reaction for the purpose of enabling such advice to be given . ’ |
| 17 | Its London frontbenchers work as a team , backed by a campaign committee which was set up under the chairmanship of the shadow Commons leader , Jack Cunningham , after bad local-election results in London a year ago — and which produced the London manifesto . |
| 18 | During the year a working party was set up under the Chairmanship of QC to look into every possible way in which the financial burden of young entrants to the Bar can be eased . |
| 19 | The Legal Academics Committee was set up under the chairmanship of QC , by the Professional Standards Committee and the JRC in November 1991 . |
| 20 | The organization was set up under the influence of the Salvadorean Communist Party , but accepted members who were not affiliated . |
| 21 | Directly after the war a special bureau the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit was set up under the aegis of the Ministry of Finance and charged with the recovery of illegally removed works of art under the German occupation and their subsequent return to their rightful owners . |
| 22 | I am glad to confirm that the disabled persons transport advisory committee , which was set up under the Transport Act 1985 , exists to provide exactly the voice for which the Hon. Member called . |
| 23 | Inspired by Professor Isaacs , the group was set up through the University of Birmingham , within the Department of Geriatric Medicine . |
| 24 | Nearly three hundred turned up for the meeting , which was chaired by Lord Bute , and a video link was set up between the Lecture Theatre and the adjacent room to accommodate the overflow . |
| 25 | The barrel , which had already been brought from the cellar in readiness , was set up outside the pub and people helped themselves . |
| 26 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 27 | We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee . |
| 28 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 29 | The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn . |
| 30 | A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts . |