Example sentences of "was set up [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blast furnace was set up here in 1755 by Jonathan Kendall , powered by a waterwheel and fired with charcoal , and it remains in situ beside the River Dovey , the subject of preservation for public interest . |
| 2 | So , it has been held that decisions of the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers , which was set up neither by statute nor contract but simply by informal agreement , are subject to judicial review ; so are decisions of the Advertising Standards Authority and of the Code of Practice Committee of the British Pharmaceutical Industry . |
| 3 | Comic Relief was set up primarily in reaction to the famine in 1984 . |
| 4 | The scheme was set up just after the war in order to ensure state-sponsorship of the arts . |
| 5 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |
| 6 | Mr Harris said MPL was set up specifically for the contract . |
| 7 | One such group is the Haitian Information Bureau , which was set up recently as a news and information service designed to provide an accurate picture of the current situation in Haiti . |