Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Overseas Research Students ( ORS ) Awards Scheme was set up by the secretary of state for education and science in 1979 to provide awards for partial remission of tuition fees to overseas post-graduate students of outstanding merit and research potential . |
| 2 | Suffice to say that it became evident fairly soon that the existing monetary techniques of regulation were not sufficiently effective , and in 1957 a committee was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inquire into the working of the monetary and credit system in the UK . |
| 3 | Britain 's ski charity , The British Ski Educational Trust Ltd , was founded in 1966 , soon after the British Ski Federation was set up by the Ski Club of Great Britain . |
| 4 | Following the commission 's recommendations , the Health Targets and Implementation Committee was set up by the state and federal health ministers to develop national goals and targets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 7 | GILL Rowlands , the ‘ trade union rights Commissioner ’ , whose expensive Warrington office to hear complaints against trade unions was set up by the government five years ago , says 1991-92 was ‘ an encouraging year ’ . |
| 8 | With the beginning of the war , the Emergency Medical Service ( EMS ) was set up by the Government . |
| 9 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 10 | The Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( FMSM — an alliance led by Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny of Vonjy ) , was set up by the government as a counterweight to the new opposition parties . |
| 11 | It was set up by the government to advise it on environmental policy . |
| 12 | NAMAS , specialists in the field of laboratory techniques , was set up by the government to raise and maintain the standards of laboratory work . |
| 13 | The first meeting takes place this week and I am asked to make a presentation to the Committee which was set up by the minister of finance . ’ |
| 14 | The Working Party on Internal Migration in Britain , which was set up by the Institute of British Geographers in l988 , aims at the better understanding of the patterns , causes and implications of migration in Britain . |
| 15 | The project should be discussed by the school librarian and the teachers to examine a ) what is being taught b ) what skills pupils are expected to acquire c ) what aspects of information handling are involved d ) at what stage of the project will pupils use the microcomputer e ) what information the pupils will gain from the microcomputer and how this information will be used In Bridge of Don Academy in Aberdeen , a project was set up by the school librarian and the modern studies teacher who was teaching a class of third-year pupils on the topic of " Conflict and the protection of the environment " . |
| 16 | The working party was set up by the Church 's Communications Committee and is headed by Canon Colin Semper , former Head of Religious Radio at the BBC . |
| 17 | Poland was set up by the Allies to help subdue Germany , but was then criticised for taking German territory . |
| 18 | A West Lothian advanced training group was set up by the club and there are also two junior development groups which operate as feeder teams . |
| 19 | These are the recognition of the interim government by some other states and international bodies , and the fact that the interim government was set up by the Djibouti Agreement which resulted from an international conference attended by many international states and bodies . |
| 20 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 21 | The Panel was set up by the SSRC in 1975 to promote research into the social , economic and political impact on Scotland of North Sea oil developments . |
| 22 | The ACE system was set up by the ISMA , Euroclear and Cedel to satisfy pre-settlement matching requirements of the two clearing systems , and is offered to all participants in them . |
| 23 | The Research programme on Environmental Issues was set up by the ESRC Environment and Planning Committee with the aim of increasing the intellectual and practical contributions of the social sciences to the understanding and amelioration of environmental problems . |
| 24 | This project was set up by the county council and Countryside Commission to experiment with new approaches to path maintenance . |
| 25 | A UK working party , which included many medically qualified people , was set up by the Department of Health and Social Security , under the chairmanship of Professor Patrick Lawther in 1978 . |
| 26 | Staffing allotment will be 654 for England , 225 for Wales , 385 for Scotland and 86 for the joint UK Nature Conservation Committee , which was set up by the Department of Environment to provide a central voice for the NCC . |
| 27 | The new draft allowed permanent government officials to hold Cabinet posts concurrently ; gave the NLA , which was set up by the military , the power to nominate senators ; and gave senators , along with MPs , the right to screen candidates for the premiership , and to launch no confidence motions against the government . |
| 28 | A working party to tackle the under representation of ethnic minorities at management level in the hospitality industry was set up by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 29 | The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions and is still funded by the trade unions . |
| 30 | The earlier student strike , in April , was set off by the dismissal of law teacher Dominic Mngomezulu , which students believed was due to his union activities . |