Example sentences of "[noun sg] was set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 32 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 33 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 34 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 35 | These are the recognition of the interim government by some other states and international bodies , and the fact that the interim government was set up by the Djibouti Agreement which resulted from an international conference attended by many international states and bodies . |
| 36 | A right wing military Government was set up in the South as a result of the peace conference was convened at Geneva in 1954 . |
| 37 | Britain 's ski charity , The British Ski Educational Trust Ltd , was founded in 1966 , soon after the British Ski Federation was set up by the Ski Club of Great Britain . |
| 38 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 39 | The organization was set up under the influence of the Salvadorean Communist Party , but accepted members who were not affiliated . |
| 40 | This project was set up by the county council and Countryside Commission to experiment with new approaches to path maintenance . |
| 41 | The project should be discussed by the school librarian and the teachers to examine a ) what is being taught b ) what skills pupils are expected to acquire c ) what aspects of information handling are involved d ) at what stage of the project will pupils use the microcomputer e ) what information the pupils will gain from the microcomputer and how this information will be used In Bridge of Don Academy in Aberdeen , a project was set up by the school librarian and the modern studies teacher who was teaching a class of third-year pupils on the topic of " Conflict and the protection of the environment " . |
| 42 | The aim of the book was set out in the preface ( which , unlike many items in these plans , was actually written ) . " |
| 43 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 44 | A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money . |
| 45 | There are more than 12 million pictures cataloguing what must be every major news story since the agency was set up in the 30's . |
| 46 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 47 | The Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was set up under the Act to examine the practical way in which reform could be carried out . |
| 48 | After a campaign by councillors , a registration scheme was set up in the Cheyney Road , Garden Lane and Ermine Road areas of the city . |
| 49 | The Overseas Research Students ( ORS ) Awards Scheme was set up by the secretary of state for education and science in 1979 to provide awards for partial remission of tuition fees to overseas post-graduate students of outstanding merit and research potential . |
| 50 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 51 | The ACE system was set up by the ISMA , Euroclear and Cedel to satisfy pre-settlement matching requirements of the two clearing systems , and is offered to all participants in them . |
| 52 | The Crowd Behaviour Panel was set up following the Report of the Joint ESRC/Sports Council Panel on Public Disorder and Sporting Events ( 1979 ) ; and following a seminar in 1981 the decision was taken to sponsor a series of research projects which would contribute to the understanding of contemporary crowd disturbances in Britain . |
| 53 | Crowd behaviour The Crowd Behaviour Panel was set up following the Report of the Joint ESRC/Sports Council Panel on Public Disorder and Sporting Events ( 1979 ) ; and following a seminar in 1981 the decision was taken to sponsor a series of research projects which would contribute to the understanding of contemporary crowd disturbances in Britain . |
| 54 | The Panel was set up by the SSRC in 1975 to promote research into the social , economic and political impact on Scotland of North Sea oil developments . |
| 55 | The company was set up at the height of the property boom . |
| 56 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 57 | Immediately after the elections a subcommittee was set up by the Legislative Assembly to study the proposals , but progress was for the time being halted , after objections from the Chinese government , as reported in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 21 , 1989 . |
| 58 | It seemed the future was not without promise , and a European base was set up with the amiable Andrew Ferguson as team-manager . |
| 59 | A camp was set up in the Bois de Lapiérouse . |
| 60 | This media course was set up as the school 's response to being chosen , like school A to participate in the Gulbenkian Research Project . |