Example sentences of "were set [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were many stations which , whilst not being strictly private , were set up by a narrow section of the public and usually barred to casual travellers . |
| 2 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 3 | Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies . |
| 4 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 5 | Early in 1942 two committees were set up by the Central Housing Advisory Committee to report to the Minister of Health ( the minister responsible for housing ) on the question of post-war housing rebuilding . |
| 6 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 7 | To ensure compliance by motorists , standards for 30 km/h streets were set out by the Ministry of Transport . |