Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were set up under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962 . |
| 2 | China appealed to the League of Nations for support against the Japanese occupation and in December 1931 a commission was set up under Lord Lytton to investigate the situation . |
| 3 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |
| 4 | Thus , to battle with the obstinate problem of unemployment , the President called for renewed spending on public works , and in 1935 a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) was set up under Harry Hopkins . |
| 5 | A National Security Council was set up under Gamsakhurdia 's chairmanship . |
| 6 | A number of blacks were given government appointments and a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity was set up under Vice-President Johnson . |