Example sentences of "commission [was/were] set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 2 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 3 | As early as 1968 steps were being taken by the Ministry of Agriculture to conserve two of them ( the Bazadais and the Aubrac ) , while a national commission was set up in 1976 to consider the need for wider conservation measures . |
| 4 | The Commission was set up in December 1977 at the World Bank 's instigation , under the chairmanship of Willy Brandt , former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of West Germany . |
| 5 | A Government commission was set up and a new and clean water supply and sewerage system installed , whilst new cemeteries were laid out just outside the City and burials in the old churchyards forbidden . |
| 6 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
| 7 | On Whitsun eve , 1960 , the Central Theological Commission was set up to prepare the Council ; subject to it were ten sub-commissions presided over by the heads of the corresponding Roman dicasteries . |
| 8 | The ( private ) National Birth Rate Commission was set up in 1913 ; the Eugenics Society established the Population Investigation Committee in 1935 to analyse the new trends . |
| 9 | China appealed to the League of Nations for support against the Japanese occupation and in December 1931 a commission was set up under Lord Lytton to investigate the situation . |
| 10 | The Fair Employment Commission was set up because of the disadvantage experienced by Northern Ireland Catholics in terms of greatly higher unemployment rates , lower participation rates in the more prestigious better-paid jobs and much greater participation in insecure or poorly paid jobs . |
| 11 | In 1954 a Royal Commission was set up to investigate and its Report on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency , published in 1957 , was followed by the 1959 Mental Health Act . |
| 12 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 13 | The Crown Agents , for example , date from the mid-nineteenth century , the Development Commission was set up in 1909 and the Horserace Totalisator Board ( the Tote ) goes back to 1928 . |
| 14 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 15 | A Gauge Commission was set up in 1845 to investigate the problem . |
| 16 | At an extraordinary plenum of the Tadjik CP central committee on Feb. 16 Makhkamov 's resignation was refused and Vaadad was criticized for contributing to the destabilization of the situation in Tadjikistan ; indeed a special commission was set up to investigate allegations that a group of Tadjik communists allied to Vaadad had plotted at the height of the Dushanbe unrest to seize power from Khayeyev 's government and install as Prime Minister Buri Karimov , currently a Deputy Prime Minister but also the Vaadad chairman . |
| 17 | A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures . |
| 18 | In September a Sejm commission was set up to investigate allegations by deputy Tadeusz Kowalczyk of Interior Ministry involvement in 93 political killings . |
| 19 | A special constitutional commission was set up , presided over by Ramiz Alia , to draw up the necessary amendments to be placed before the next session of parliament . |
| 20 | A commission was set up to oversee the new decisions . |
| 21 | A parliamentary commission was set up on Nov. 13 to establish whether the police had played a role in the recent violence , which continued into the following week in the departments of Jinotega and Estelí where 15 people were killed . |
| 22 | The government on Nov. 23 repealed the 1982 local government regulations affecting representation and administration at upazilla ( sub-district ) level , introducing a new ordinance under which all functions would be administered through executive orders until further orders were issued ; a 13-member commission was set up to review local government institutions . |
| 23 | A Health Care Commission was set up to rank hundreds of treatments in order of priority , using a formula similar to QALYs . |
| 24 | Even in the Ottoman empire a commission was set up in 1885 to examine candidates for entry to Turkish diplomacy . |
| 25 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 26 | The inquiry is the first by the CRE into a single local authority or organisation in Scotland since the commission was set up in 1976 . |
| 27 | The inquiry is the first by the CRE into a single local authority or organisation in Scotland since the commission was set up in 1976 . |