Example sentences of "set [adv prt] by [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some programmes , set up by North American and international development agencies in order to alleviate the population pressure on food and thus reduce poverty , were aimed at direct population control rather than giving the woman the right and freedom to control her own fertility . |
| 2 | Set up by WSR Managing Director Mark Smith and Association Chairman John Pearce as a thank you gesture to Beamish Museum and the WSR 's workers involved in the rally , the trip by ‘ Locomotion ’ was a fitting end to a summer of celebrations on the WSR following the Taunton 150 events of last month . |
| 3 | In 1987 , a pilot reed-bed system doused with domestic waste was set up by Fife Regional Council at Torry Bay on land reclaimed from the Firth of Forth . |
| 4 | Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin , meeting on March 23 in the Georgian town of Kazbegi , agreed to set up by April 10 a joint Georgian-Russian militia detachment to police Georgia 's troubled South Ossetia region . |
| 5 | The event has been set up by Darlington Environmental Watch who want the representatives of the three major parties to answer hard-hitting questions about their green plans for the town . |
| 6 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 7 | Many of the presentations were variations on the theme of ‘ partnership to give competitive edge ’ set out by BPX chief executive John Browne in his keynote speech reported last month . |