Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 2 | Already , 156 hospitals have left the NHS since trusts were set up two years ago . |
| 3 | The German-American Academic Council was set up this month on the initiative of Germany to support projects and exchanges in science , including social science , and technology . |
| 4 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 5 | It was because of these attacks that a Public Enquiry into the issue of political vetting was set up three years ago . |
| 6 | Turkmenistan was to set up national armed forces , formed out of former Soviet units stationed in the republic , but under joint Turkmen and Russian command . |
| 7 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 8 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 9 | According to Mason , ‘ The foundation was set up six months ago before the Canaletto 's sale was made public . |
| 10 | When the Video Library was set up ten years ago by the non-profit-making association , Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques , I suggested to Jean Antoine that he should keep a U-matic video copy . |
| 11 | The DOCE was set up five years ago to provide up-to-date information for both teachers and pupils in secondary education , and originally sent data out on floppy . |
| 12 | Denplan Care was set up five years ago by two dentists and now has 200,000 patients and 3,000 dentists . |
| 13 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 14 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 15 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 16 | Run by farm owner Tim Butler , the business park was set up three years ago and there are currently 11 tenants . |
| 17 | Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power . |
| 18 | If a grandparent were to set up such an accumulation trust for the benefit of grandchildren , then income can be paid out to a grandchild when a minor and unmarried , without the income being aggregated with the income of the grandparent or the parents of the beneficiary . |
| 19 | A working party was set up last July to advise on this University 's contribution to IY , and one of its recommendations , approved by Senate at its meeting of November 18th , is that each Faculty should nominate a member of staff to ‘ shadow ’ some person employed at senior management level in local manufacturing industry , nominated through CRUM , in the course of the winter term . |