Example sentences of "set [adv prt] by [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hong Kong contract is a boost for Transpotech , the marketing company set up by Britain 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory . |
| 2 | They are sceptical that a few extra consultants or staff grade appointments will really reduce their hours and complain that the new deal was set up by doctors ' representatives not working in hard pressed specialties . |
| 3 | La Cutufa , a fraudulent loan and investment scheme , was allegedly set up by Pinochet 's National Information Centre ( CNI ) secret police in the mid-1980s . |
| 4 | Much surprise was caused in the Swedish trade when it was later announced that she was to head a new educational publishing venture being set up by Sweden 's biggest publishing concern , Bonniers . |
| 5 | It was described in a TReeS pamphlet as ‘ a project set up by Madre de Dios 's indigenous people which aims to combine the best of modern and traditional approaches to health-care , in order to maintain acceptable standards of health throughout the region 's native forest communities ’ . |
| 6 | What is likely is that the royal burgh and its muir were set up by David 's brother , Alexander I , in about 1120 , but what is certain is that when David founded Holyrood Abbey in 1128 , or soon after , his charter makes it clear that Edinburgh was by then a going concern . |
| 7 | As Charlie Woods , director of Scottish and international operations at Scottish Enterprise , said , the whole reason why the Forum for Open Systems ( of which Howell is director ) was set up by SE 's Software Group was ‘ to bring together the users and suppliers of technology to establish how products should be developed and used ’ . |
| 8 | There has been no significant advance on the theories of the press as set out by Siebert et al . |