Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They are sceptical that a few extra consultants or staff grade appointments will really reduce their hours and complain that the new deal was set up by doctors ' representatives not working in hard pressed specialties . |
| 3 | The deal was set up by Ghazi Kenaan , Syria 's head of security in Beirut , who naturally took his cut off the top . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The silver tray was set down by Lily , who was senior parlourmaid and in her thirties . |
| 6 | Road blocks were set up by Lothian and Borders police and neighbouring forces were also helping . |
| 7 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 8 | The first English factory to manufacture looking glass plates was set up by Sir Robert Mansell in the reign of James I. |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 13 | Erm , we we talked about this sort of issue earlier on , in in relationship to the , to the R A D. Erm , I 'm not quite sure of the strong importance of that organisation to the council , but I am sure that this erm , committee was set up by a number of south west authorities who are trying to look at the future of county farms . |
| 14 | WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name . |
| 15 | The Progressive Policy Institute was set up by the Democratic Leadership Council , which is on the right wing of the Democratic Party . |
| 16 | The McCarthy Lodge home was set up by Mrs Jonker to care for vulnerable elderly victims of crime . |
| 17 | This was particularly noticeable when hostels were set up by individuals or by groups of sympathisers , rather than by religious or other charitable organisations . |
| 18 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 19 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 20 | Profile was set up by Heather Burke , Phonelink 's current client service director , and sold planning information to 3,500 UK companies in the building industry . |
| 21 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 22 | Chris Stocks was set up by a friend when The Sun newspaper asked readers to send in photographs of Chris Evans lookalikes . |
| 23 | In 1987 , a pilot reed-bed system doused with domestic waste was set up by Fife Regional Council at Torry Bay on land reclaimed from the Firth of Forth . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One contender is the product that the SQL Access Group was formed to produce : the group was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Scottish Office produced a manual and a guide to legislation and support structures were set up by central government and education authorities to provide information and to respond to board queries . |
| 28 | Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies . |
| 29 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 30 | Early in 1942 two committees were set up by the Central Housing Advisory Committee to report to the Minister of Health ( the minister responsible for housing ) on the question of post-war housing rebuilding . |