Example sentences of "group [was/were] set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day care , counselling , group activities and continuous support reversed this trend and , in recognition of the difficulties that often emerge between teenage girls and step-parents , a support group was set up to arbitrate and seek solutions . |
| 2 | This group was set up to support mums facing the challenges of their current of future employment outside the home and in fact now has links with the Working Mothers Association ( I am the local contact with WMA ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Inspired by Professor Isaacs , the group was set up through the University of Birmingham , within the Department of Geriatric Medicine . |
| 5 | Here the Lignite Action Group was set up in March 1985 after a public meeting in Moortown to express concern over test-drilling in the area was attended by 500 people . |
| 6 | This women 's group was set up because of dissatisfaction with the lack of action by the male-dominated Ovens committee . |
| 7 | This group was set up to bring together young Asian people who could organize around issues affecting them — not least the worrying trend of the National Front gaining increasing numbers of votes , and in some cases Asian votes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But — if there 's anything in it — it 's a complicated matter , involving the bank , a shipping company , the Ministry of Defence and , perhaps , the Foreign Office — precisely the sort of thing our Police Liaison Group was set up to deal with . |
| 13 | At Wester Hailes a small support group was set up in advance of the assessment to advise staff on what would be required of them . |
| 14 | An own goal yes , but even so , the review group was set up to smooth away a little local difficulty . |
| 15 | A working group was set up on July 19 to examine trade aspects of domestically prohibited goods and hazardous substances ( for the issue of trade in toxic and hazardous wastes see pp. 36788-89 ) ; a progress report from this working group was noted by the Dec. 4-5 session of the contracting parties . |
| 16 | The FRPB has been concerned about the water quality of the River Almond ( Class 3/4 ) for some time and in June 1988 a River Almond Model Study Group was set up to monitor the deteriorating river quality . |
| 17 | A joint environmental working group was set up in 1990 , comprising representatives of all parts of the business , with the objective of overseeing the development of the Company 's environmental programme . |
| 18 | The group was set up in 1986 after a proposal at one of the regular — though often far apart — meetings of the four main Church leaders by Church of Ireland Primate Archbishop Robin Eames , and seconded by the late Catholic Primate Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich . |
| 19 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When the group was set up , Mr Lang asked it to ‘ consider current land and land-related uses in the Cairngorms and to recommend an integrated management plan for the future that reflects the needs of natural resource conservation and enhancement , social and economic priorities and access for recreational purposes ’ . |
| 22 | In September 1990 , two top-level study groups were set up ; one was headed by Ronnie Hampel , now chief operating officer , the other by Tom Hutchison , another board member . |
| 23 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 24 | Other areas of the establishment were infiltrated by fascists , and groups were set up in the Civil Service and in several educational centres and public schools , including the Universities of London and Birmingham , Stowe School , and Winchester , Beaumont and Worksop Colleges . |
| 25 | For example , commissions and study groups were set up to study organizational changes and changes in board functioning . |
| 26 | It is evident that the figures and groups were set up and down the field , surely very much as on the Underworld vase ; only on this wall there were scores of figures and also certainly more indications of setting . |
| 27 | In September 1989 , with the existing funding and personnel , five school groups were set up , one in each inner area of the city , while the original groups still met and were run by parents with minimal support from the EESA workers . |