Example sentences of "be set [adv prt] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |