Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Milice was a political police force set up by Vichy to safeguard Pétain 's National Revolution and combat enemies of the ‘ new moral order ’ , identified as communists , freemasons and Jews . |
| 2 | Mr Summerchild , it was pointed out , was employed in the Government Commission , the department set up by Harold Wilson in 1965 to coordinate the workings of the various ministries . |
| 3 | August 1986 , Labour councillor Pandura Perera cites SMG as example of political cell set up by GLC ostensibly as community group … |
| 4 | Codes of practice set out by bodies such as the RYA to avoid the effects of contaminated waterways are all very well , but should n't we be taking direct action upon the problem itself — rather than making the best of a bad job ? |
| 5 | Opposition groups criticized as inadequate a preliminary draft of a new constitution presented on April 4 by the constitutional committee set up by President Hassan Gouled Aptidon in January [ see p. 38711 ] ; the proposal retained a strong executive presidency . |
| 6 | Mexico City 's long-running air pollution problems [ see ED 53/54 and passim ] are to be addressed by a special committee set up by President Carlos Salinas . |
| 7 | An organisation known as EAST , the Environment of Advanced Software Technology , has a team of 70 engineers ready to provide tools and support for software engineering and development projects : EAST operates out of the offices of SFGL , Boulogne , France , a subsidiary set up by Bull SA , CAP Sesa , Cisi , Sema Group and Steria back in 1985 to develop software engineering solutions for the whole software life-cycle . |
| 8 | Novell has now ratified the certification of Russia 's newest NetWare engineers following the Moscow training session set up by Drake Training & Technologies . |
| 9 | His Pacelli grandfather had served Pius IX in the administration of the papal states : his father Filippo was a lawyer practising in the papal courts — he became an adviser to the commission for the codification of canon law set up by Pius X in 1904 . |
| 10 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 11 | With her milky complexion set off by chestnut hair the artists nicknamed her ‘ coconut ’ . |
| 12 | The striker had a foot in every move set up by Cremonese , unbeaten in the Cup and en route to the semi-finals in the New Year . |
| 13 | The group will concentrate on developing the technology , rather than producing systems it will work closely with the University Research Group set up by ICL a year ago . |
| 14 | A more immediate and effective resistance was organized by Positive Images , a local group set up by lesbian and gay activists and members of most of the Left groups . |
| 15 | Vets and police refer grieving owners to the voluntary bereavement group set up by Yvette Price-Mear , of Mansfield Woodhouse , Nottinghamshire . |
| 16 | Shares in some 30 other companies have been sequestered and put in the control of the Presidential Commission on Good Government , the body set up by Mrs Aquino to untangle the financial affairs of the Marcos era . |
| 17 | He was elected vice-chairman of the Basic Law Consultative Committee , the body set up by Peking to promote awareness and discussion of post-1997 constitutional arrangements in Hong Kong . |
| 18 | ‘ In my observation , a body set up by government is more likely to face pressure than one established by an industry . ’ |
| 19 | Long Latin words are full of syllables which resemble ‘ bum ’ and ‘ tit ’ and ‘ poo ’ much more , and an idly dreaming miniaturist may have had a thought process set off by half-reading the Latin : if in lege domini ( Psalm 1:2 ) really suggested the funny men made of legs on the opening pages of the Bardolf-Vaux and Ormesby Psalters , then this tells us that the artists , like Professor Camille , spoke English . |
| 20 | Founded in 1972 , the National Schizophrenia Fellowship is a voluntary organisation set up by relatives of people with schizophrenia and allied disorders . |
| 21 | The Communications Network , a new organisation set up by businessman Christopher Kilmurry , is planning a series of local courses and longer term support groups . |
| 22 | Dillons has donation £20,000 to Childline , the charity set up by Esther Rantzen . |
| 23 | In the months that preceded the general election to the short-lived Northern Ireland Assembly set up by Whitelaw , a number of explosions occurred in church and other emotive buildings in quiet parts of the country with no terrorist problem . |
| 24 | In this way she sets out a research agenda for applications-related research which serves a similar function to the spatial analysis research agenda set out by Openshaw at the beginning of Part Two . |
| 25 | Whatever Beccaria 's personal position , his vision of a social contract set up by people who can at least imagine themselves as the recipients of its punishments is in marked contrast to the later , positivist position that tended to see criminals as different kinds of people altogether . |
| 26 | More than 10 years passed before a reporter at the Capital Times of Madison discovered that Strickland , in mid-1971 , had become a stockholder and officer in a corporation set up by Heber to sell the very techniques of educational intervention that Strickland credited in his article . |
| 27 | A special commission set up by Syria to investigate the shooting down in October 1989 of a Turkish civilian aircraft 20 km inside Turkish territory [ see p. 37595 ] reported on Jan. 24 , 1990 , that " pilot error " had caused the accident . |
| 28 | The more radical plan was the work of Presidential Council member Stanislav Shatalin and a commission set up by USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin [ ibid . ] . |
| 29 | A report by a commission set up by President Boris Yeltsin reveals the extent of dumping of nuclear materials at sea by Russia and the former Soviet Union [ see ED 69 ] . |
| 30 | Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do . |