Example sentences of "be set [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new international organisation , the Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ) , has been set up by environmental groups with the aim of setting worldwide standards for good forest management . |
| 2 | Merton is the second of two major ventures in the recruiting business which have been set up by entrepreneurial Michael Silverman . |
| 3 | The Fondation Amazonie has been set up by Belgian film maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux , formerly among the leading lights of pop singer Sting 's Rainforest Foundation . |
| 4 | Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September . |
| 5 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 6 | Local businesses responded generously to an appeal from School , and a generous grant was received from a fund which had been set up by leading industrialists to help Independent Schools to provide buildings and equipment for Scientific teaching and research . |
| 7 | Attempts to bolster the numbers of the endangered rufous hare wallaby in the Australian outback have been set back by domestic cats , which have killed 11 of the rare animals introduced to remote areas after a captive breeding programme . |
| 8 | A new company is to be set up by Sanken Electric of Japan , and the Gooding Group of the UK , to manufacture special types of power supplies for the electronic and computer industry . |
| 9 | Although many of the assessment centres are expected to be linked to colleges and universities , they are also likely to be set up by private consultants , individual companies and even groups of companies working together . |
| 10 | These new , relatively small , selective colleges are to be set up by private sponsors , with government grants to provide a free education with a technological emphasis for 11–16-year-olds . |
| 11 | ‘ Cities of the Immortals ’ will be set up by California-based company called the Heaven on Earth Corporation , many of them providing low-cost housing for the Third World . |
| 12 | Roman law never did have a doctrine that trusts should be set up by imperative words . |
| 13 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
| 14 | The Scottish Office produced a manual and a guide to legislation and support structures were set up by central government and education authorities to provide information and to respond to board queries . |
| 15 | ‘ Hygienic milk depots ’ were set up by local authorities ( the first in St. Helens in 1899 ) to provide sterile milk for bottle-fed babies , although the standard of hygiene even of this milk was sometimes dubious . |
| 16 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 17 | The façade is wonderfully elegant , the Baroque dressing being set off by superb windows . |
| 18 | Indeed Gow 's appearance was formidable , an uncompromisingly Scottish kind of countenance being set off by bushy eyebrows and side-whiskers , and anything like conceit or pretentiousness on the part of a pupil might provoke a wounding sarcasm . |
| 19 | It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ The Ulster Resistance Movement was set up by loyalist politicians , and it 's their guns that are now killing innocent people . ’ |
| 21 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 22 | Quite sure that you 'll find in the end that I 'm right and it was set up by murdering bog-trotters . |
| 23 | WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A new All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation was set up by presidential decree on Feb. 8 in place of Gosteleradio , the USSR State Television and Radio Committee . |