Example sentences of "[was/were] set up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restriction was upheld by the Privy Council which rejected the argument that Deacons were only entitled to protect such part of their goodwill as would be threatened by Bridge if he were to set up in practice on his own account , ie that part of the firm 's goodwill as attached to the particular department in which he had worked . |
| 2 | They were set up under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962 . |
| 3 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 4 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 5 | Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist . |
| 6 | The cells were cultured in DMEM , with or without the addition of calcipotriol ( MC-903 ) at a final concentration of 10 - 5 to 10 - 9 M. All plates were set up in quadruplicate . |
| 7 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 8 | The erm management agency that was set up for tornado was structured and manned for that specific task . |
| 9 | Motability was set up with government backing in 1977 with the aim of helping disabled people to use their mobility allowances to achieve greater value for money . |
| 10 | In 1983 , the Gaia Programme was set up in conjunction with the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena ( ASSAP ) . |
| 11 | It was set up in conjunction with Swiss entrepreneur Niels Rasmussen , owner of Nercom Informatik , who has also set up Goldmine Technologies AG in Zug , Switzerland ( UX No 374 ) . |
| 12 | The fellowship was set up in memory of Dr Ralph Stoody and Dr Arthur West who worked in Methodist public relations and information for more than thirty years . |
| 13 | Again a series of experimental projects was set up in order to evaluate the effect of the measure on traffic safety . |
| 14 | An Evening Services Liaison Group , comprising all officers in charge of Evening Duty , was set up in order to improve co-ordination and communication between day and evening service staff . |
| 15 | Our plea to the Government is that they take a leaf out of their own book on the independent living fund , which was set up in haste and has played a role that it was never meant to play . |
| 16 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 17 | At Wester Hailes a small support group was set up in advance of the assessment to advise staff on what would be required of them . |
| 18 | It was set up in partnership with local authorities , industry , businesses and community and voluntary groups to produce effective solutions to environmental problems in north-west Kent . |
| 19 | A BRITISH man has pleaded guilty in Thailand to charges of heroin trafficking , saying he has no hope of proving he was set up by drug smugglers . |
| 20 | It was set up by Act of Parliament in 1966 to manage the airports at Heathrow , Gatwick , Stansted and Prestwick . |
| 21 | One contender is the SQL Access Group , which was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 22 | One contender is the product that the SQL Access Group was formed to produce : the group was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 23 | This one-year-old venture was set up by Shildon-based , marketing director for Sealants , Adhesives and Coatings in Europe , and run by and . |
| 24 | The £10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months . |