Example sentences of "[noun sg] was set [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 2 | A working party to tackle the under representation of ethnic minorities at management level in the hospitality industry was set up by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 3 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 4 | Suffice to say that it became evident fairly soon that the existing monetary techniques of regulation were not sufficiently effective , and in 1957 a committee was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inquire into the working of the monetary and credit system in the UK . |
| 5 | Following the commission 's recommendations , the Health Targets and Implementation Committee was set up by the state and federal health ministers to develop national goals and targets . |
| 6 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 7 | The Progressive Policy Institute was set up by the Democratic Leadership Council , which is on the right wing of the Democratic Party . |
| 8 | To this end the Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group was set up by the American National Standards Institution in 1990 and will report back sometime this year with recommendations that will eventually find their way into the next version of ANSI Cobol around 1997 . |
| 9 | A West Lothian advanced training group was set up by the club and there are also two junior development groups which operate as feeder teams . |
| 10 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This project was set up by the county council and Countryside Commission to experiment with new approaches to path maintenance . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The working party was set up by the Church 's Communications Committee and is headed by Canon Colin Semper , former Head of Religious Radio at the BBC . |
| 21 | The National Working Party was set up by the federal government in 1988 to encourage the fair and accurate portrayal of women in the media . |
| 22 | The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions and is still funded by the trade unions . |