Example sentences of "[be] set [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A FUND has been set up to save the giant northern hairy-nosed wombat . |
| 2 | Then , in 1975 and 1976 , the CNAA 's committee for Art and Design , which had been set up to monitor the existing provision , instituted a major review and renewal of approval of well over 100 BA honours courses . |
| 3 | Operation Osprey has now been set up to tackle a fresh wave … a team of detectives are trying to establish a concrete link between the cases [ Craven is talking against a backcloth of computers ] . |
| 4 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 5 | Documents-only arbitrations have been set up to provide a simple means of resolving complaints by consumers in a number of industries , such as travel and telephones . |
| 6 | ‘ We have now been able to establish the most efficient operational procedure to be followed , ’ said Natasha , ‘ and this has been set up to ensure the highest standards of quality and productivity . ’ |
| 7 | The courts had been set up to administer a new penal code , unveiled on Sept. 7 , in which traditional written trials were to be replaced by public oral trials for criminal cases . |
| 8 | The existence of some could not be disclosed on security grounds ; others are set up to do a particular job and then wound up . |
| 9 | As the sphere becomes superconducting , surface currents are set up producing a magnetic flux opposite to that already existing inside the material . |
| 10 | Both guitars have necks that are properly set to line up with the top of the bridges , and which are set up to give the correct amount of neck relief . |
| 11 | Under the ‘ hard ECU ’ proposal put forward by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , a new institution would be set up to manage the hard ECU , the European Monetary Fund ( EMF ) . |
| 12 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 13 | A new consultative group , to be set up to oversee the new programme , will include representatives from aid donors , countries possessing tropical forest , NGOs and community organisations . |
| 14 | Saouma announced in March 1990 that an independent commission of inquiry under a former Swedish Prime Minister , Ola Ullsten , was to be set up to investigate the slow progress of the action plan for the tropical rainforests , set up in 1985 in collaboration with the UNDP and the World Resources Institute . |
| 15 | Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside . |
| 16 | During this time several charities were set up to help the poor . |
| 17 | The societies had been created in 1964 out of the committees which were set up to organise the 1963 commemorations of the bicentenary of the birth of Wolfe Tone , the leader of the United Irishmen and martyr of the 1798 Rising . |
| 18 | Three new Stock Exchange money brokers ( SEMBs ) joined the original six SEMBs to lend stocks and finance to GEMMs , and six inter-dealer brokers ( IDBs ) were set up to maintain an anonymous transactions service between GEMMs . |
| 19 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 20 | At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department . |
| 21 | The FRPB has been concerned about the water quality of the River Almond ( Class 3/4 ) for some time and in June 1988 a River Almond Model Study Group was set up to monitor the deteriorating river quality . |
| 22 | In the spring a weekly journal , Bezbozhnik , was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign . |
| 23 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 24 | A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations . |
| 25 | After further discussion a small group consisting initially of Eileen , Maureen , Crawford and Leah , was set up to plan the next such gathering . |
| 26 | A commission was set up to oversee the new decisions . |
| 27 | Consequently , nuclear power was excluded from the government 's privatization plans and instead a state-owned company , Nuclear Electric , was set up to run the existing nuclear power stations ( eight Magnox , five AGR , and the PWR under construction at Sizewell ) and to continue generating around 20 per cent of electricity in England and Wales ( Scotland has a separate company ) . |
| 28 | The scheme was set up to encourage a broader section of the public to buy works of art by living artists , thus opening up the art market while at the same time helping artists to earn an income . |
| 29 | Membership applications were received from all over the UK , and the MLA was set up to meet the growing demand for a central organisation . |
| 30 | In the early 1980s a government-funded Japanese project was set up to develop a fifth-generation computer . |