Example sentences of "be set [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new organization , the World Industry Council for the Environment ( WICE ) , has been set up by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) to lobby on environmental issues for business interests . |
| 2 | These emphases were repeated by Konstantin Chernenko , particularly in his address to the commission that had been set up by the Central Committee to prepare a revised programme . |
| 3 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 4 | Monica rang lawyers at the Vicariate of Solidarity , which had been set up by the Catholic Church in 1975 and was by now Chile 's leading human rights organization . |
| 5 | A committee of experts has been set up by the Russian Ministry of Culture to look into the problem of such articles within its borders . |
| 6 | Our own central social services inspectorate will be not only carrying out its own inspections , but also checking on the quality and systems of the arm's-length inspectorates that have been set up by the local authorities . |
| 7 | The NF-Environnement label has been set up by the National Consultative Committee for " Ecoproduct " Labelling , under chairmanship of MP Alain Brune . |
| 8 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 9 | Alp Action has been set up by the Geneva-based Bellerive Foundation , under the chairmanship of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan . |
| 10 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 11 | In many cases public meetings are set up by the local Councillor , Community Council or local groups , and arrangements are therefore the responsibility of the organiser . |
| 12 | A NEW unit is to be set up by the Multiple Sclerosis Society which will devote its time to research into MS , a disease of the nervous system . |
| 13 | Though in itself fairly insensitive under normal conditions it had to be set off by the early , very sensitive , mercury-fulminate detonator which was fired by safety fuze . |
| 14 | There were many stations which , whilst not being strictly private , were set up by a narrow section of the public and usually barred to casual travellers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A COMPLAINTS system is being set up by a local authority to make it easier for residents to complain about the service that the council offers . |
| 17 | A PAY intelligence unit is being set up by the Scottish health service to guide managers on how to reward their staff . |
| 18 | I enclose details of a new forum being set up by the National Rivers Authority to try to reconcile and manage the competing range of interests that value the river Wye as a resource . |
| 19 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 20 | This takes a similar form to the Arch of Peace and is set off by the extended , arcaded arms that drift along the edge of the square . |
| 21 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 22 | The Redbridge Care Attendant Scheme , for instance , was set up by a local association for handicapped people with funding from various sources , including the Greater London Association for the Disabled ( address on page 146 ) . |
| 23 | In the event the first two centres demonstrated the dual approach to much advisory work in that one was set up by a local authority ( in Lambeth ) and one by voluntary bodies ( in South Kensington ) . |
| 24 | Popperfoto was set up by a Czeckoslovakian photographer in the nineteen thirties and the collection includes the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald , the Hindenburg airship disaster , and Captain Scott 's expedition to the South Pole . |
| 25 | The largest of the 1930s house builders , New Ideal Homesteads , was set up by an ex-local authority surveyor in the late 1920s . |
| 26 | The Progressive Policy Institute was set up by the Democratic Leadership Council , which is on the right wing of the Democratic Party . |
| 27 | The National Working Party was set up by the federal government in 1988 to encourage the fair and accurate portrayal of women in the media . |
| 28 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 29 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 30 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |