Example sentences of "was [adv] set up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A Fish Association was duly set up under the chairmanship of the Duke of Kent .
2 The judicial commission of inquiry , announced by the Prime Minister , Vere Bird Sr , on April 25 , was duly set up under the chairmanship of a British QC , Louis Blom-Cooper .
3 This hillside defence system was probably set up by the Votadini , a tribe whose continual harassment by the neighbouring Selgovae led it to seek alliance with Rome at a very early stage .
4 A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ .
5 Because the trust was originally set up for the purposes of mitigating inheritance tax the trust may come within the provisions of ss739 and 740 with the exemption mentioned in s741 not being available .
6 First , such a change does not take place overnight among all artists ; and secondly it is very hard to be certain that a given statue from the Acropolis was actually set up before the invasion .
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