Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tribunal was set up under the Tribunals of Enquiry ( Evidence ) Act 1921 the procedure of which is designed to elicit facts . |
| 2 | This is a rare breed in the Massif Central , numbering only 400 by 1978 when a conservation programme was set up under the auspices of the Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d'Auvergne . |
| 3 | A working party was set up under the auspices of the Institute of British Geographers , and their work is being expanded by support from ESRC . |
| 4 | A system of self-regulatory organisations ( SROs ) was set up under the auspices of the DTI and the Securities and Investments Board , the latter set up to authorise the SROs and oversee their operations . |
| 5 | The committee was set up under the terms of a voluntary agreement . |
| 6 | A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money . |
| 7 | When a joint committee of CST and CASS was set up during the debates , it was chaired by Sir Alan Richmond , who described it as ‘ the most difficult committee I have ever chaired in my life ’ . |
| 8 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 9 | The Orkney Christian Fellowship was set up in the mid-1980s by a former Church of Scotland Minister , Alan Cowieson , who had caused division amongst a number of families while he was still Minister of the Evie , Rendall and Firth Parish . |
| 10 | The $2,000 prize was set up by a patrons ' organization of the National Museum of American Art in honour of Charles C. Eldredge , former director of the museum . |
| 11 | It is not a consortium of millionaires , but was set up by the leaders of the developed nations at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 . |
| 12 | Poland was set up by the Allies to help subdue Germany , but was then criticised for taking German territory . |
| 13 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |