Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 2 | The Occupational Pensions Board , which was set up under the 1973 Social Security Act to monitor and establish minimum standards for private occupational pension schemes , was asked to consider the question of equal status for men and women in occupational pension schemes in 1975 . |
| 3 | The Serious Fraud Office ( SFO ) was set up under the 1987 Criminal Justice Act in response to a report by the Fraud Trials Committee formed in 1983 as a result of dissatisfaction with the ability of the City of London Fraud Squad to get convictions . |
| 4 | When a review of the health service was set up following the 1987 general election , it was claimed that our kind of public review would be too slow . |
| 5 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 6 | Darlington Wildlife Trust is the latest branch of the Durham trust , which was set up in the Sixties . |
| 7 | Ms Ela Robinson , who is in charge of the nursery class at Richmond CE School , is chairman of the National Campaign for Nursery Education , which was set up in the Sixties . |
| 8 | The first , Organic Growers West Wales , was set up in the 1970s to facilitate the supply of produce to meet the growing demand from the supermarkets while supporting its members by guaranteeing markets and providing information on what crops are needed and what prices they will receive for them . |
| 9 | There are more than 12 million pictures cataloguing what must be every major news story since the agency was set up in the 30's . |
| 10 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 11 | Thanks primarily to Francois Mitterrand , a regulatory body , independent of the state , was set up in the 1980S to overview public service and other communications sectors and to protect broadcasters from pressures exercised by governments , politicians and lobbies of all kinds . |
| 12 | The rationale underlying the Land Commission Act was set out in a 1965 white paper : |
| 13 | The background to cuts was set out in the 1976 White paper on public Expenditure ( Cmnd 6393 ) : ‘ Popular expectations for improved public services and welfare programmes have not been matched by growth in output or by willingness to forgo improvements in private living standards in favour of these programmes . ’ |
| 14 | The role was an innovative one , and its initial scope was set out in the 1985 job specification ( Leeds City Council 1985c ) . |