Example sentences of "[noun sg] was set [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The deal was set up by Ghazi Kenaan , Syria 's head of security in Beirut , who naturally took his cut off the top . |
| 4 | A working party to tackle the under representation of ethnic minorities at management level in the hospitality industry was set up by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 5 | The silver tray was set down by Lily , who was senior parlourmaid and in her thirties . |
| 6 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 7 | Suffice to say that it became evident fairly soon that the existing monetary techniques of regulation were not sufficiently effective , and in 1957 a committee was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inquire into the working of the monetary and credit system in the UK . |
| 8 | Following the commission 's recommendations , the Health Targets and Implementation Committee was set up by the state and federal health ministers to develop national goals and targets . |
| 9 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 10 | Erm , we we talked about this sort of issue earlier on , in in relationship to the , to the R A D. Erm , I 'm not quite sure of the strong importance of that organisation to the council , but I am sure that this erm , committee was set up by a number of south west authorities who are trying to look at the future of county farms . |
| 11 | The Progressive Policy Institute was set up by the Democratic Leadership Council , which is on the right wing of the Democratic Party . |
| 12 | The McCarthy Lodge home was set up by Mrs Jonker to care for vulnerable elderly victims of crime . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To this end the Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group was set up by the American National Standards Institution in 1990 and will report back sometime this year with recommendations that will eventually find their way into the next version of ANSI Cobol around 1997 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A West Lothian advanced training group was set up by the club and there are also two junior development groups which operate as feeder teams . |
| 18 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 19 | The outing was set up by her former Tory MP , the late Richard Holt , who also fixed it for her to take her first flight — an 80-minute trip over the Bay of Biscay in Concorde — when she was 109 . |
| 20 | A new All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation was set up by presidential decree on Feb. 8 in place of Gosteleradio , the USSR State Television and Radio Committee . |
| 21 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 22 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 23 | In 1976 ( Re S ) the principle of making a condition for access was set out by Cairns , L. J. as follows : ‘ Clearly no condition should be imposed which would be regarded as detracting from the rights and duties of the adoptive parents ’ . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ The Ulster Resistance Movement was set up by loyalist politicians , and it 's their guns that are now killing innocent people . ’ |
| 25 | The $2,000 prize was set up by a patrons ' organization of the National Museum of American Art in honour of Charles C. Eldredge , former director of the museum . |
| 26 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 27 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 28 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 29 | These are the recognition of the interim government by some other states and international bodies , and the fact that the interim government was set up by the Djibouti Agreement which resulted from an international conference attended by many international states and bodies . |
| 30 | Britain 's ski charity , The British Ski Educational Trust Ltd , was founded in 1966 , soon after the British Ski Federation was set up by the Ski Club of Great Britain . |