Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 2 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 3 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 4 | Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists . |
| 5 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 6 | Having established that they had no signs of any fatigue cracks on the rear spar chord , the left and right stabilisers from two different aircraft were set up on the test rig . |
| 7 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 8 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The deal was set up by Ghazi Kenaan , Syria 's head of security in Beirut , who naturally took his cut off the top . |
| 12 | A Europe-Argentina Club was set up in Brussels on Feb. 13 to promote joint ventures and investment in Argentina . |
| 13 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 14 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 15 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 16 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In 1983 , the Gaia Programme was set up in conjunction with the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena ( ASSAP ) . |
| 19 | The programme was set up in 1987 and named in memory of two employees — Ben Hajadi , an engineer who died in a car accident , and Solomon , who lost his life in a helicopter crash . |
| 20 | The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind : |
| 21 | But the whole study was set up within a much more general theoretical orientation : the theory of linguistic change ; it was not merely an attempt to demonstrate age , class and style differences , as Smith implies . |
| 22 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 23 | The point is that such an elaborate division of labour was set up despite , as Trist et al. observed , each job not being so ‘ complex that the average faceworker could not , in a reasonably short time , be expected to become qualified in more than one ’ ( 1963 , 47 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace . |
| 26 | The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement . |
| 28 | Road blocks were set up by Lothian and Borders police and neighbouring forces were also helping . |
| 29 | Certainly at the beginning of the New Temple Period , about 1700–1600 BC , there was a major economic and possibly demographic expansion on Crete which supplied the thrust outwards ; Minoan colony settlements were set up in a band right across the southern Aegean from Kythera to Iasos . |
| 30 | The cells were cultured in DMEM , with or without the addition of calcipotriol ( MC-903 ) at a final concentration of 10 - 5 to 10 - 9 M. All plates were set up in quadruplicate . |