Example sentences of "[pers pn] were set up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 2 | When we were set up with drinks , Pyke said , ‘ Tell me about yourself . ’ |
| 3 | They were set up under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962 . |
| 4 | They were set up in close succession by the Secretary of State for Scotland to study the curriculum ( Munn ) and assessment ( Dunning ) in the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools ; they kept in close touch with each other throughout their deliberations ; and they presented their reports with complementary recommendations at the same time . |
| 5 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 6 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 7 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 8 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 9 | The restriction was upheld by the Privy Council which rejected the argument that Deacons were only entitled to protect such part of their goodwill as would be threatened by Bridge if he were to set up in practice on his own account , ie that part of the firm 's goodwill as attached to the particular department in which he had worked . |