Example sentences of "set up in [num] " in BNC.

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1 Set up in 1987 , Futuroscope calls itself an image park .
2 Set up in 1981 and operated by the Department of Trade and Industry , the LGS has been heavily criticised as a tool for helping channel funds to small business because of the high cost of the funds involved .
3 Set up in 1991 , the service has received requests for traces from over 15,000 people and possible pension source has been located in over 90 per cent of cases .
4 Through Colquhoun and MacBryde , who were receiving patronage from two sisters who lived in Lewes , Mrs Frances Byng Stamper and Caroline Byng Lucas , he became associated with the Society of London Painters-Printers which set up in 1948 , in conjunction with the Redfern Gallery .
5 In France the now outmoded system of jeunes de langue created by Colbert was gradually replaced by the more up-to-date teaching provided by the Ecole Spéciale des Langues Orientales Vivantes set up in 1795 .
6 Set up in 1979 under the chairmanship of Anthony Ramp ton , its original brief was primarily concerned with the causes of ethnic minority , and especially ‘ West Indian ’ , ‘ underachievement ’ .
7 Set up in 1979 [ see p. 29817 ] , the primary aim of the SADCC had been to counter economic destabilization by , and regional dependence on , apartheid South Africa .
8 The Ozone Trends Panel , a working party of scientists set up in 1986 by NASA , has calculated a three per cent depletion in stratospheric ozone on a global level since 1969 .
9 Set up in 1980 to turn Kuwait 's oil and gas interests into an international company , the company has bought up most of Gulf Oil 's European assets .
10 State owned funds — those which manage the Business Expansion Scheme ( Set up in 1983 to encourage investment by private investors in unquoted companies , through tax relief at their marginal rate up to £40,000 in a year ) and the Scottish and Welsh Development Agencies , set up to fund growth in their particular areas .
11 Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses .
12 Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets .
13 Set up in 1984 , Radio RIN currently broadcasts for 20 hours a day and successfully competes with many of the country 's commercial stations .
14 Set up in 1942 under the unpromising name of the Taxation and Financial Relations Committee , the TAC was designed to provide a forum ( and perhaps a safety valve ) for the growing number of business members who at that time were excluded from Council membership , but who wished to contribute their business experience to the consideration of taxation and financial issues .
15 Set up in 1972 , the NRC is not a permanent body and is only activated in times of crisis — as during the miners ' strike , from which two developments of particular importance emerged .
16 Set up in 1972 it was established with £3 million to help parents with the costs of some special provisions .
17 In the Habsburg territories Joseph I set up in 1709 a new permanent committee of nine officials to control foreign affairs .
18 The Labour Party was developing from the federation of industrial and political organizations set up in 1900 .
19 Set up in 1851 , the first of these precursors of the CWS was the London-based Central Co-operative Agency .
20 Set up in 1920 by actor Leslie Howard and director Adrian Brunel among others , with the hope that they could do something about ‘ raising the standards of British films ’ , the company had only enough capital to produce six short comedies .
21 Set up in 1975 , CITES regulates trade by its 103-member nations in hundreds of rare and endangered species from orchids to orang utans .
22 The Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population was set up in 1937 ; the terms of reference were : The long years of economic depression and high unemployment rates , the sharp divide between favoured and unfavoured regions , and the drift of population from ‘ north ’ to ‘ south ’ combined to supply the political pressure for enquiry .
23 The first trial units will be set up in 1994 , attached to the Moscow Military District and the Northern Fleet .
24 A Medical Negligence Panel is also due to be set up in 1994 ( see Appendix 2B for the Medical Negligence Panel criteria ) .
25 The Agricultural Training Board was set up in 1966 to improve the technical performance of workers in the industry and thus to widen the number of job opportunities for them .
26 Wolfenden was commissioned not by the state but by the Central Council of Physical Recreation ( CCPR ) , which had been set up in 1935 as a co-ordinating body for the many voluntary associations involved in the running of sport .
27 The POR was set up in 1935 not as a breakaway from an orthodox Communist party ( none existed in Bolivia until the formation of the PIR in 1940 ) but as the party of a group of intellectuals attracted by Trotsky 's ideas and personality .
28 Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts .
29 A dépot des archives was set up in 1688 ; while the Marquis de Torcy ( Louis 's last Foreign Minister ) had begun about the same time the creation of a rudimentary Press bureau .
30 Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman .
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