Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " Green Con " awards were set up in 1989 to highlight bogus claims to environmental worthiness made by business . |
| 2 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts . |
| 3 | Nine were set up in 1970 alone , and this rate was maintained through the decade of the 1970s , rising to fourteen in 1973 and dropping to seven in 1977 . |
| 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 | Special squads were set up in 1976 against what the Daily Mirror called " Britain 's army of dole queue swindlers " . |
| 6 | Local Marine Boards were set up in all main ports and a Shipping Master appointed by each to take administrative responsibility for masters ' and mates ' examinations and the business of engaging and discharging seamen under pain of penalty for " crimping " and other similar offences . |
| 7 | New Mental Health Tribunals were set up in each health region to deal with any complaints arising from compulsory admission procedures . |
| 8 | Lesbian and Gay-Men 's Sub-Committees were set up in such a way as to give a high level of representation to people from outside the council 's structure , and to ensure that their voices could be heard . |
| 9 | Local centres , professionally staffed , were set up in many LEAs to act as focuses for the dissemination of each project 's materials . |
| 10 | This was a pattern to be followed when UDCs were set up in other areas in succeeding years . |
| 11 | The Central and National Wages Boards , the precursors of the national level of the current machinery , were set up in 1920 and given statutory status in the Railways Act 1921 . |
| 12 | Community Forests , funded by the Forestry and Countryside Commissions , were set up in 1990 on the outskirts of major cities . |
| 13 | Its UK headquarters , although still fairly embryonic in nature , were set up in 1990 in Chertsey , Surrey , to serve the European marketplace . |
| 14 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |
| 15 | Inquiries were set up in both cases , while Haughey announced on Sept. 22 that a serious fraud agency was to be established . |
| 16 | As so defined by the Home Secretary ( Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe ) these tasks were set out in 1952 as follows : |
| 17 | The major changes which were set out in that strategy have however been carried into effect — the establishment of a National Conveyancing Protocol , the establishment of a financial services vehicle to assist solicitors and a more positive approach to solicitors involvement in estate agency . |
| 18 | The new ‘ Hayter ’ Centre , which was set up in 1963 , was committed to applying the most advanced research techniques drawn from a range of academic disciplines to the study of the USSR and Eastern Europe ( from Engineering and History as well as from the Social Sciences ) . |
| 19 | When the Red Deer Commission ( RDC ) was set up in 1959 , it argued that there were too many red deer in Scotland . |
| 20 | The United Nations Organisation was set up in 1945 , just after the second world war , with the aim of keeping peace throughout the world . |
| 21 | In that spirit WIN was set up in 1945 . ’ |
| 22 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 23 | The Foyle Fisheries Commission is a cross-border statutory body which was set up in 1952 under parallel legislation introduced in Northern Ireland and the Republic . |
| 24 | The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation . |
| 25 | The Hazards Forum was set up in 1989 by the engineering institutions to assemble and exchange ideas on the management of risks and hazards . |
| 26 | Interactive Home Systems ( IHS ) was set up in 1989 in Redmond , Washington , with the aim of selling high quality visual information to homes , schools , public institutions and businesses , drawing on a constantly expanding visual information library which includes not only art but also history , science , travel , current affairs and popular culture . |
| 27 | National was set up in 1989 specifically to sell the capacity , and the change leaves National 's attempt to become a public telecommunications operator in doubt . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | SAG was set up in 1989 to develop an architecture for relational database connectivity , its aim , to create complete multi-vendor database interoperability . |
| 30 | The first film commission in Britain was set up in 1989 in Liverpool , in response to Mersey Television 's need for locations around that city , as they developed drama programmes from their base in Brookside . |