Example sentences of "set [adv] by the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes followed from recommendations set out by the Public Accounts Committee ( PAC ) in its Eighth Report of 1986–7 ( HC 98 ) Members said that they wanted documents tailored more specifically to Parliament 's needs in its consideration of departments ' expenditure proposals and put forward three proposals ( Cm. 375 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He accepted the ‘ desire to remain neutral ’ , interpreted as ‘ the reluctance of one or other state to participate in military-political blocs set up by the imperialist powers ’ as a ‘ favourable phenomenon ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 6 | Two different health structures have developed in El Salvador : the ‘ official ’ state and private health systems on the one hand , and the ‘ popular ’ health system set up by the popular organizations and the guerrilla movement of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sheep farmer Alison Hunter Blair has a lamb which has been orphaned after it 's mother died , now through a special lamb bank set up by the national farmers union she 'll be able to find a new mother for the lamb . |
| 10 | All important to the reputation of the company is British Standard 5750 , the quality assurance scheme set up by the British Standards Institute and to which Stoddard Carpets Ltd. , were awarded full registration two years ago . |
| 11 | This is the report of a Working Party set up by the Judicial Studies Board with the objective of " Facilitating a more uniform approach to the assessment " of such damages . |
| 12 | Added to complaints by women 's organisations about the screen 's increasing sexuality ( for that era ) , the Arbuckle scandal helped to bring about censorship by the Hays Office , a self-regulating body set up by the big studios in 1922 , under lawyer Will H. Hays . |