Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up .
2 The Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was set up under the Act to examine the practical way in which reform could be carried out .
3 In 1970 the Committee on Safety of Medicines was set up under the Act and began work in the following year … with the purpose of ‘ a. giving advice with respect to safety , quality and efficacy in relation to human use of any substance or article ( not being an instrument apparatus or appliance ) to which any provision of the Act is applicable and b. promoting the collection and investigation of information relating to adverse reaction for the purpose of enabling such advice to be given . ’
4 Its London frontbenchers work as a team , backed by a campaign committee which was set up under the chairmanship of the shadow Commons leader , Jack Cunningham , after bad local-election results in London a year ago — and which produced the London manifesto .
5 During the year a working party was set up under the Chairmanship of QC to look into every possible way in which the financial burden of young entrants to the Bar can be eased .
6 The Legal Academics Committee was set up under the chairmanship of QC , by the Professional Standards Committee and the JRC in November 1991 .
7 The organization was set up under the influence of the Salvadorean Communist Party , but accepted members who were not affiliated .
8 Directly after the war a special bureau the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit was set up under the aegis of the Ministry of Finance and charged with the recovery of illegally removed works of art under the German occupation and their subsequent return to their rightful owners .
9 I am glad to confirm that the disabled persons transport advisory committee , which was set up under the Transport Act 1985 , exists to provide exactly the voice for which the Hon. Member called .
10 On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink .
11 Inspired by Professor Isaacs , the group was set up through the University of Birmingham , within the Department of Geriatric Medicine .
12 Nearly three hundred turned up for the meeting , which was chaired by Lord Bute , and a video link was set up between the Lecture Theatre and the adjacent room to accommodate the overflow .
13 The barrel , which had already been brought from the cellar in readiness , was set up outside the pub and people helped themselves .
14 ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims :
15 A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service .
16 We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee .
17 A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer .
18 The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn .
19 A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts .
20 Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant .
21 A small project was set up with a group of students who had chosen library work as part of their Foundation Study .
22 In 1983 , a new charity , The Blackheath Halls , was set up with the goal of raising £450,000 to begin restoring the building .
23 If more than one yacht visited , a barbecue was set up on the beach , and many a bleary Azorian dawn was witnessed as a result .
24 In a similar manner to the interview analysis technique , a record was set up on the database for each activity using the numerical codes as an identifier , and a second field used to type in all information needed or produced by that activity .
25 The software for the 1991 SAS/LBS was set up on the assumption that the Census data was fixed and unchanging ; however , this proved to be unrealistic .
26 The ‘ Great Debate ’ , initiated by James Callaghan in 1977 , was set up on the premise that education was failing .
27 A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year .
28 It was now necessary to be able to detect adulterants , and in October 1842 a laboratory ( the ancestor of the later Laboratory of the Government Chemist ) was set up at the excise department headquarters in Broad Street , London , staffed solely by George Phillips .
29 The company was set up at the height of the property boom .
30 The Arch of Trajan in Ancona ( A.D. 113 ) was set up at the harbour entrance astride a causeway .
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