Example sentences of "[was/were] set up [prep] the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 2 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | GILL Rowlands , the ‘ trade union rights Commissioner ’ , whose expensive Warrington office to hear complaints against trade unions was set up by the government five years ago , says 1991-92 was ‘ an encouraging year ’ . |
| 5 | With the beginning of the war , the Emergency Medical Service ( EMS ) was set up by the Government . |
| 6 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 7 | The Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( FMSM — an alliance led by Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny of Vonjy ) , was set up by the government as a counterweight to the new opposition parties . |
| 8 | It was set up by the government to advise it on environmental policy . |
| 9 | NAMAS , specialists in the field of laboratory techniques , was set up by the government to raise and maintain the standards of laboratory work . |