Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] set up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement . |
| 2 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 3 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
| 7 | Chris Stocks was set up by a friend when The Sun newspaper asked readers to send in photographs of Chris Evans lookalikes . |
| 8 | His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier , fresh lined with red and gold damask , its silver handles polished bright . |
| 9 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies . |
| 15 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 20 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 21 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 22 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 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 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 28 | The Research programme on Environmental Issues was set up by the ESRC Environment and Planning Committee with the aim of increasing the intellectual and practical contributions of the social sciences to the understanding and amelioration of environmental problems . |
| 29 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |