Example sentences of "was set up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The Department , which is supported by WACC , was set up in 1987 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Only one prosecution was made in 1990 , and only nine have been made in total since the Inspectorate was set up in 1987 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 ’ . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Hire Association Europe ( HAE ) was set up in 1974 as a trade association for the hire industry . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | A drama panel was set up in 1974 , in order to consider schemes which avoided the polarization of practical courses on the one hand , and the literary aspects of dramatic art on the other hand , and attempted to integrate the two . |
| 50 | Thus a bureau des fonds with a wide range of responsibilities including control of the ministry 's finances was set up in 1725 , a bureau du chiffre for the cyphering and decyphering of despatches in 1749 and a bureau des interprètes in 1768 . |
| 51 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 52 | The corporation was set up in that far-sighted move to stimulate and control the regeneration of the docklands area . |
| 53 | The Crown Agents , for example , date from the mid-nineteenth century , the Development Commission was set up in 1909 and the Horserace Totalisator Board ( the Tote ) goes back to 1928 . |
| 54 | He heads up the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau ( phone 071–928 4488 ) , which was set up in 1981 and which provides an independent service for the resolution of disputes between personal insurance policyholders and holders of unit trusts , and companies that belong to the scheme . |
| 55 | It was set up in 1981 by the British water industry in response to the United Nations ' Water Decade of 1981 to 1990 . |
| 56 | It was set up in 1981 and became a limited company in 1990 . |
| 57 | The POR was set up in 1935 not as a breakaway from an orthodox Communist party ( none existed in Bolivia until the formation of the PIR in 1940 ) but as the party of a group of intellectuals attracted by Trotsky 's ideas and personality . |
| 58 | A rudimentary factory inspectorate was set up in 1882 , but government intervention in labour relations was overwhelmingly favourable to employers . |
| 59 | The total has grown since the present service was set up in 1948 , although in fact the proportion of children in care per thousand of the total population under 18 has not altered so much . |
| 60 | The state of Israel itself was set up in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people . |