Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price review board was set up as a result of the new patent legislation . |
| 2 | The silver tray was set down by Lily , who was senior parlourmaid and in her thirties . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Here the Lignite Action Group was set up in March 1985 after a public meeting in Moortown to express concern over test-drilling in the area was attended by 500 people . |
| 5 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Women 's Aid Centres were set up in Dublin and other major cities as I was preparing to leave Ireland . |
| 8 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The £10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months . |
| 13 | A Gauge Commission was set up in 1845 to investigate the problem . |
| 14 | A new All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation was set up by presidential decree on Feb. 8 in place of Gosteleradio , the USSR State Television and Radio Committee . |
| 15 | A volleyball net was set up on it , a wharf stretched out into the cove . |
| 16 | At Wester Hailes a small support group was set up in advance of the assessment to advise staff on what would be required of them . |
| 17 | In 1949 the Drama Board was set up by Leo Baker as an examining body to give national qualification to tutors of youth drama . |
| 18 | In 1962 , the Institute of Directors ( IOD ) established a Retirement Advisory Bureau ; and the first private retirement consultancy was set up in London in 1965 ( IPM 1965 ) . |
| 19 | The creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve was set up in 1986 to protect this valuable area around the peak of Creag Meagaidh in the Monadhliath mountains . |
| 20 | Weekly group meetings were set up in Newham when five or six workers were on the payroll . |
| 21 | Dunlop cheese was produced on most Ayrshire farms right into the 20th century but began to decline after the Scottish Milk Marketing Board was set up in 1933 . |
| 22 | Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A National Security Council was set up under Gamsakhurdia 's chairmanship . |
| 25 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 26 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 27 | In addition , among several projects for livestock improvement and marketing promoted by the HIDB 's Livestock Improvement Working Party , a lamb marketing scheme was set up in Lewis in 1978 for the transport of store lambs to the mainland and their sale at auction . |
| 28 | After a campaign by councillors , a registration scheme was set up in the Cheyney Road , Garden Lane and Ermine Road areas of the city . |
| 29 | A drama panel was set up in 1974 , in order to consider schemes which avoided the polarization of practical courses on the one hand , and the literary aspects of dramatic art on the other hand , and attempted to integrate the two . |
| 30 | An African Curriculum Organisation was set up in 1976 and has already proved that it has an important part to play in this process . |