Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The committee was set up under the terms of a voluntary agreement . |
| 33 | The Legal Academics Committee was set up under the chairmanship of QC , by the Professional Standards Committee and the JRC in November 1991 . |
| 34 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
| 35 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 36 | The Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee was set up in July 1991 to fulfil this role and has just produced its first report ( p ? ? ? ) . |
| 37 | Though an Interagency Country Risk Exposure Review Committee was set up in 1978 to assemble the facts , no one insisted that the banks took notice of them or acted accordingly . |
| 38 | The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament . |
| 39 | An emergency food committee was set up in Moscow on Sept. 7 , because of the " catastrophic " situation of food supply in the city . |
| 40 | The committee was set up in the wake of the Cleveland child sex abuse inquiry to implement the National Health Service and Community Care Act . |
| 41 | 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 ’ . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation . |
| 47 | Cooperative was set up in 1989 by old hands from Tandem Computers Inc , including VP of research Kim Worsencroft and CEO Dennis McEvoy , so Ellipse is inherently resilient to errors and failures . |
| 48 | After some delay , Western Electric equipment was set up at Victor 's studios in Camden , New Jersey . |
| 49 | The rationale underlying the Land Commission Act was set out in a 1965 white paper : |
| 50 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 51 | The Progressive Policy Institute was set up by the Democratic Leadership Council , which is on the right wing of the Democratic Party . |
| 52 | A National Security Council was set up under Gamsakhurdia 's chairmanship . |
| 53 | The king agreed to most of the measures demanded by the commons , and a council was set up with Archbishop Stratford and the Earl of Huntingdon acting as chief councillors , assisted by the Earls of Lancaster and Warenne . |
| 54 | The McCarthy Lodge home was set up by Mrs Jonker to care for vulnerable elderly victims of crime . |
| 55 | Last year , a Corrective Action Team was set up in Chlor-Chemicals to find ways in which the existing stock of drums and cylinders could support a required 25% increase in chlorine business while avoiding major capital expenditure on new packaging . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | The Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology was set up in July 1982 under the chairmanship of Dame Mary Warnock to investigate in vitro fertilisation and human genetic research . |
| 58 | The IITP was set up in July last year and launched last October . |
| 59 | Domestic air flights were suspended on the receipt of bomb threats , four buses were fire-bombed and a small explosive device was set off in front of the CGT headquarters in Buenos Aires . |
| 60 | The independent inquiry was set up into the LAS after the system broke down twice within 10 days . |