Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
| 2 | The Scottish Office produced a manual and a guide to legislation and support structures were set up by central government and education authorities to provide information and to respond to board queries . |
| 3 | ‘ Hygienic milk depots ’ were set up by local authorities ( the first in St. Helens in 1899 ) to provide sterile milk for bottle-fed babies , although the standard of hygiene even of this milk was sometimes dubious . |
| 4 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 5 | On this occasion there was serious difficulty in settling the crown presentee , and the very real danger to the political interest of the duke lay in the fact that the Opposition and the rival candidate were set up by some of his own friends . |
| 6 | Committees for negotiations on teachers ' pay were set up by this Act , which also laid down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached . |
| 7 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |
| 8 | It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ The Ulster Resistance Movement was set up by loyalist politicians , and it 's their guns that are now killing innocent people . ’ |
| 10 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 11 | Quite sure that you 'll find in the end that I 'm right and it was set up by murdering bog-trotters . |
| 12 | It was set up by three sisters with funds from their family 's whisky business . |
| 13 | WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name . |
| 14 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 15 | DSD was set up by 600 enterprises in response to legislation requiring industry to collect and recycle the packaging it produces . |
| 16 | A new All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation was set up by presidential decree on Feb. 8 in place of Gosteleradio , the USSR State Television and Radio Committee . |
| 17 | In May 1835 , the relieving officer of the new Chailey Union was set on by thirty men in Ringmer , demanding ‘ money or blood ’ ; they got their relief in cash instead of the food tickets he offered . |
| 18 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 19 | In theory , it was set off by two boys who stole a can of soft drink from a third boy . |
| 20 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |