Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new ‘ Hayter ’ Centre , which was set up in 1963 , was committed to applying the most advanced research techniques drawn from a range of academic disciplines to the study of the USSR and Eastern Europe ( from Engineering and History as well as from the Social Sciences ) . |
| 2 | When the Red Deer Commission ( RDC ) was set up in 1959 , it argued that there were too many red deer in Scotland . |
| 3 | The United Nations Organisation was set up in 1945 , just after the second world war , with the aim of keeping peace throughout the world . |
| 4 | In that spirit WIN was set up in 1945 . ’ |
| 5 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 6 | The Foyle Fisheries Commission is a cross-border statutory body which was set up in 1952 under parallel legislation introduced in Northern Ireland and the Republic . |
| 7 | The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation . |
| 8 | The Hazards Forum was set up in 1989 by the engineering institutions to assemble and exchange ideas on the management of risks and hazards . |
| 9 | Interactive Home Systems ( IHS ) was set up in 1989 in Redmond , Washington , with the aim of selling high quality visual information to homes , schools , public institutions and businesses , drawing on a constantly expanding visual information library which includes not only art but also history , science , travel , current affairs and popular culture . |
| 10 | National was set up in 1989 specifically to sell the capacity , and the change leaves National 's attempt to become a public telecommunications operator in doubt . |
| 11 | Cooperative was set up in 1989 by old hands from Tandem Computers Inc , including VP of research Kim Worsencroft and CEO Dennis McEvoy , so Ellipse is inherently resilient to errors and failures . |
| 12 | SAG was set up in 1989 to develop an architecture for relational database connectivity , its aim , to create complete multi-vendor database interoperability . |
| 13 | The first film commission in Britain was set up in 1989 in Liverpool , in response to Mersey Television 's need for locations around that city , as they developed drama programmes from their base in Brookside . |
| 14 | The powers of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) , which was set up in 1989 , were officially widened on Jan. 14 to include monitoring and verification of the peace agreements . |
| 15 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 16 | Although there was a sort of medieval corporation , it did n't have a Royal Charter and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted , and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the Borough Commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in eighteen eighty one . |
| 17 | More personal equity plans were taken out in the 12 months to April 1992 than in any other year since the PEP scheme was set up in 1987 . |
| 18 | Now funded by the Department of National Heritage , the Conservation Unit was set up in 1987 as part of the Museums and Galleries Commission to act as a national focus for raising conservation standards . |
| 19 | Mail order computer retailer and manufacturer Chipboards Plc has called in the receivers , Robson Rhodes , which are now trying to sell the combined or separate businesses and assets of the group as a going concern : the company comprises a Chipboards division , which sells clone personal computers , upgrades and peripherals by mail order and has a turnover of £8m ; and a Chipset division , which manufactures high-end clone personal computers such as file servers , Unix machines and workstations for computer-aided design and generates £3m in revenues ; Chipboards was set up in 1987 , is based in Bisley , near Woking , Surrey , and claims to have a customer base of 20,000 . |
| 20 | The Department , which is supported by WACC , was set up in 1987 . |
| 21 | AIDS AHEAD which was set up in 1987 to promote a health education programme and advice service for deaf people on the dangers of AIDS . |
| 22 | The programme was set up in 1987 and named in memory of two employees — Ben Hajadi , an engineer who died in a car accident , and Solomon , who lost his life in a helicopter crash . |
| 23 | Only one prosecution was made in 1990 , and only nine have been made in total since the Inspectorate was set up in 1987 . |
| 24 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
| 25 | The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament . |
| 26 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population was set up in 1937 ; the terms of reference were : The long years of economic depression and high unemployment rates , the sharp divide between favoured and unfavoured regions , and the drift of population from ‘ north ’ to ‘ south ’ combined to supply the political pressure for enquiry . |
| 27 | One short-lived and singularly ill-fated exception was the Royal Commission on the Penal System which was set up in 1964 ‘ to re-examine the concepts and purposes which should underlie the punishment and treatment of offenders ’ . |
| 28 | In one country at least — the Cameroon — a research institute , The Institute for the Reform of Primary Education at Buea , was set up in 1974 with reasonable resources in terms of personnel ( a team of twelve to fifteen nationals and experts has been employed ) , adequate funding jointly from Government and UNESCO/UNDP , and in its initial stages a sensible time scale to work to . |
| 29 | Hire Association Europe ( HAE ) was set up in 1974 as a trade association for the hire industry . |
| 30 | A committee of inquiry was set up in 1974 to consider the whole question of the education of handicapped children and young people and to review existing provision . |