Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] [prep] 1977 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motability was set up in 1977 on the initiative of the government to help holders of mobility allowance and war pensioners ' mobility supplement use their allowance to obtain a vehicle . |
| 2 | VIA Rail was set up in 1977 after the competing giants , Canadian Pacific , now grown into a huge conglomerate , and its nationalised rival Canadian National had found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight . |
| 3 | Teacher placement in industry have formed the backbone of the UBI activities since the project was set up in 1977 , but formal schemes date back to the early 1960s , with LEAs such as Leicestershire acting as pioneers in the field when the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) first piloted the three week Introduction to Industry Scheme for teachers . |
| 4 | A working party chaired by Lady Vaizey was set up in 1977 to look into the question of making such payments , but although it produced a paper on the subject , no further action was taken . |
| 5 | As a result , a working group was set up in 1977 under the Chairmanship of Mr Gordon Oakes , the then Minister of State at the DES , to consider the management and financing of advanced further education . |
| 6 | AEA is one of 42 member organisations within the Forum , which was set up in 1977 to provide European research centres with the opportunity to mutually exchange information . |
| 7 | ANDRA was set up in 1977 under the auspices of the atomic energy commission ( Commissariat à l'Énergie atomique ) and its sister organization , the state nuclear corporation ( Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires ) . |
| 8 | The fellowship was set up in 1977 and is sponsored by William Grant and Sons , distillers of Glenfiddich malt whisky . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the Fire Brigades Union said the pay formula had now brought industrial peace since it was set up in 1977 and ‘ therefore it is in everyone 's interest to retain it . ’ |