Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tees Valley Tourism , a partnership between the public and private sectors , was set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years . |
| 2 | If the Church Commissioners subsequently agree to seal a Declaration of Redundancy , advice is sought on the future of the building from the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches , a national body which was set up under the Pastoral Measure . |
| 3 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 4 | The Resources Allocation Working Party ( RAWP ) was set up with a brief ( RAWP 1975 : 5 ) : To review the arrangement for distributing NHS capital and revenue … with a view to establishing a method of securing , as soon as practicable , a pattern of distribution responsible objectively , equitably and efficiently , to relative need . |
| 5 | It seemed the future was not without promise , and a European base was set up with the amiable Andrew Ferguson as team-manager . |
| 6 | In the Junior Clubman class a three nation battle was set up at the very start between Hillsborough 's Richard Lyons , Dublin 's John Grandon and Glasgow 's Craig Murray . |
| 7 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 8 | AA was set up as a monthly hardcopy abstracts journal in 1954 and an online database was introduced in 1986 containing material from 1980 to date , giving easy access to abstracts spanning the discipline of analytical chemistry . |
| 9 | Operation Gemini was set up as a high profile battle against criminals . |
| 10 | The departure of occupying forces was recommended and a new commission , the UN Commission on Korea ( UNCOK ) , was set up as a permanent body charged with helping to attain unification . |
| 11 | Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative . |
| 12 | It was set up after a three-year campaign by an all-party war crimes group . |
| 13 | Taylor Woodrow was set up after the unintended sale of two houses by a 16-year old greengrocer 's son and his solicitor uncle . |
| 14 | Thus , the Alliance for Progress , which gave rise to many agrarian reform programmes , was set up in the early 1960s . |
| 15 | The village , which is home to 132 orphans , was set up in the early 1980s by Mr Mr John Foster , a teacher at the former Central Comprehensive School in Darlington . |
| 16 | Fig. 126 shows the pediment as it was set up in the old museum , an arrangement that is certainly wrong . |
| 17 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 18 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The largest of the 1930s house builders , New Ideal Homesteads , was set up by an ex-local authority surveyor in the late 1920s . |
| 23 | The Progressive Policy Institute was set up by the Democratic Leadership Council , which is on the right wing of the Democratic Party . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | To this end the Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group was set up by the American National Standards Institution in 1990 and will report back sometime this year with recommendations that will eventually find their way into the next version of ANSI Cobol around 1997 . |
| 29 | In the same year in the UK the Review Committee on Education for Information Use , which was set up by the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) in 1974 , was recommending that : |
| 30 | This was set up by the Fair Trade Foundation which you were asking about , . |