Example sentences of "company [was/were] set [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 2 | The company was set up by Mr W.C. Dann and , within a few years , had a workforce of over a hundred . |
| 3 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 4 | The company was set up by Jeremy Green last October , on the basis of market research showing considerable ‘ pent-up demand ’ for this sort of service . |
| 5 | The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema . |