Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost invariably , I ended up each year in front of the Star Chamber of ministers who were set up under the chairmanship of Willie Whitelaw to try to sort out the differences which remained between ministers and the Chief Secretary . |
| 2 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 3 | They were set up under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962 . |
| 4 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 5 | The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies . |
| 6 | They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | This arrangement was used for the BBC ( the corporation ) in 1927 when it was set up under Royal Charter , and for the commercial broadcasting sector from 1954 onwards . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | China appealed to the League of Nations for support against the Japanese occupation and in December 1931 a commission was set up under Lord Lytton to investigate the situation . |
| 17 | The organization was set up under the influence of the Salvadorean Communist Party , but accepted members who were not affiliated . |
| 18 | Thus , to battle with the obstinate problem of unemployment , the President called for renewed spending on public works , and in 1935 a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) was set up under Harry Hopkins . |
| 19 | A number of blacks were given government appointments and a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity was set up under Vice-President Johnson . |
| 20 | After an initiative by JWT , a committee was set up under former Treasury mandarin Sir Leon Pliatzky to examine production practices and to recommend action to control cost inflation . |
| 21 | This authority was set up under the Medway Ports Authority Scheme of 1968 and the Medway Ports Authority Act 1973 . |
| 22 | This tribunal was set up under the Tribunals of Enquiry ( Evidence ) Act 1921 the procedure of which is designed to elicit facts . |
| 23 | It was set up under Educational Support Grant funding in 1986 , but was financed by the City Council when the grant expired in April 1989 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The committee was set up under the terms of a voluntary agreement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A National Security Council was set up under Gamsakhurdia 's chairmanship . |
| 28 | The council , co-chaired by Hrawi and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad , was set up under the " treaty of brotherhood , co-operation and co-ordination " in May [ see p. 38214 ] . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Legal Academics Committee was set up under the chairmanship of QC , by the Professional Standards Committee and the JRC in November 1991 . |