Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal was set up by Ghazi Kenaan , Syria 's head of security in Beirut , who naturally took his cut off the top . |
| 2 | It can be no coincidence that the famed Fund of Funds , which so many investors wish they had never heard of , was set up by Bernie Cornfield . |
| 3 | I remind the Secretary of State and his Ministers that the National Consumer Council , which he quoted several times , was set up by Shirley Williams and me when the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection was still in existence . |
| 4 | Police believe he was set up by Jim Craig , who ran the UDA 's multi-million pound a year extortion rackets . |
| 5 | Profile was set up by Heather Burke , Phonelink 's current client service director , and sold planning information to 3,500 UK companies in the building industry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A BRITISH man has pleaded guilty in Thailand to charges of heroin trafficking , saying he has no hope of proving he was set up by drug smugglers . |
| 8 | One of the first brass mills in the region was set up by Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) in 1702 , but by 1930 the industry was extinct in the area , having been taken over by Birmingham . |
| 9 | The Trust was set up by Lord and Lady Romsey after their eight year old daughter died of cancer . |
| 10 | It was set up by Act of Parliament in 1966 to manage the airports at Heathrow , Gatwick , Stansted and Prestwick . |
| 11 | The McCarthy Lodge home was set up by Mrs Jonker to care for vulnerable elderly victims of crime . |
| 12 | TAFOS , a member of WACC , was set up by Enrique Larrea of Peru and Thomas Müller of Germany . |
| 13 | Half a century later , in 1969 , First Artists Productions , a new independent film company , was set up by Paul Newman , Sidney Poitier and Barbra Streisand , with a similar aim — a balance between mammon and idealism — to that which led to the formation of UA . |
| 14 | The Institute of Environmental Assessment ( IEA ) was set up by Dr Tim Coles , who worked for the National Rivers Authority , to act as an impartial and independent watchdog and to raise the standard of environmental impact assessments and statements , which — under European law — must be submitted to planning authorities with planning applications . |
| 15 | Heavily involved in these negotiations were representatives of the US-based Orangutan Foundation , which has branches in Taiwan , Indonesia and the UK , and which was set up by Dr Biruté Galdikas , who has been working with orangs in Kalimantan for more than 20 years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And it was set up by CAFOD , Christian Aid , the New Consumer , Oxfam , Traidcraft Exchange , which is the charity side of Traidcraft and the World Development Movement . |
| 18 | In 1949 the Drama Board was set up by Leo Baker as an examining body to give national qualification to tutors of youth drama . |
| 19 | One contender is the SQL Access Group , which was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 20 | One contender is the product that the SQL Access Group was formed to produce : the group was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 21 | Llanelli 's second try was set up by Boobyer after Copsey won a line-out on the right . |
| 22 | The company was set up by Mr W.C. Dann and , within a few years , had a workforce of over a hundred . |
| 23 | The group , which was set up by Mr Lang , is embarrassingly split in its conclusions . |
| 24 | This league was set up by David Baggaley and Paul Craven to ‘ promote indoor climbing competitions at all standards ’ . |
| 25 | Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems . |
| 26 | The first English factory to manufacture looking glass plates was set up by Sir Robert Mansell in the reign of James I. |
| 27 | British domination of Egypt was set up by Sir Evelyn Baring ( soon to be Lord Cromer and known to his subordinates as " the Lord " ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This one-year-old venture was set up by Shildon-based , marketing director for Sealants , Adhesives and Coatings in Europe , and run by and . |
| 30 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |