Example sentences of "was set up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an initiative by JWT , a committee was set up under former Treasury mandarin Sir Leon Pliatzky to examine production practices and to recommend action to control cost inflation . |
| 2 | It was set up under Educational Support Grant funding in 1986 , but was financed by the City Council when the grant expired in April 1989 . |
| 3 | This arrangement was used for the BBC ( the corporation ) in 1927 when it was set up under Royal Charter , and for the commercial broadcasting sector from 1954 onwards . |
| 4 | It was set up between 1876 and 1884 as a combined concert hall , gallery and art school , and until the war , it also served to house the parliament . |
| 5 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 6 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |
| 7 | The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind : |
| 8 | At about this time , a small working party ( sometimes referred to as the " Resources Committee " ) was set up with two apparent functions . |
| 9 | A regulatory body , OFGAS , was set up with similar responsibilities to OFTEL . |
| 10 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 11 | Research shows that ‘ a very substantial ’ market exists for the product — the first to be launched by Royal Bank Insurance Consultants since it was set up on 1 October 1991 . |
| 12 | The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | This was set up on 10 February in Dresden when delegates from Russia and Germany held their first joint session to discuss the restitution of art treasures missing since World War II . |
| 14 | In 1962 ELDO was set up on this basis — with the L standing for launcher . |
| 15 | On Oct. 12 , 1989 , a Polish Socialist Party of Labour ( PSPP ) was set up on social democratic principles . |
| 16 | 1.1 The National Curriculum English Working Group was set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study , and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
| 17 | At first the ramp was set up without any flat bottom or platforms and three feet of vert , the ramp remained like this for about half a year . |
| 18 | The quota system , which critics claim permits poached ivory to enter legal trade , was set up as African elephant numbers fell from an estimated 1.3 million in 1979 to about 600,000 today . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | When the Red Deer Commission ( RDC ) was set up in 1959 , it argued that there were too many red deer in Scotland . |
| 21 | The United Nations Organisation was set up in 1945 , just after the second world war , with the aim of keeping peace throughout the world . |
| 22 | In that spirit WIN was set up in 1945 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation . |
| 26 | The Hazards Forum was set up in 1989 by the engineering institutions to assemble and exchange ideas on the management of risks and hazards . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | SAG was set up in 1989 to develop an architecture for relational database connectivity , its aim , to create complete multi-vendor database interoperability . |