Example sentences of "were set [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 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 | A platform and public address system were set up by NICRA stewards in front of the police cordon . |
| 5 | This was particularly noticeable when hostels were set up by individuals or by groups of sympathisers , rather than by religious or other charitable organisations . |
| 6 | Other permanent quadrats were set up by Forrest Shreve ( 1915 ) at the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington at Tucson , Arizona , and it appears to be through a colleague of Shreve , W. A. Cannon , that T. G. B. Osborn was stimulated in 1926 to set up permanent quadrats in heavily used shrub land and a reserve released from grazing at Koonamore in S. Australia ( Osborn , Wood & Partridge , 1935 ; O. B. Williams & Mott , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | On this occasion there was serious difficulty in settling the crown presentee , and the very real danger to the political interest of the duke lay in the fact that the Opposition and the rival candidate were set up by some of his own friends . |
| 8 | ‘ Hygienic milk depots ’ were set up by local authorities ( the first in St. Helens in 1899 ) to provide sterile milk for bottle-fed babies , although the standard of hygiene even of this milk was sometimes dubious . |
| 9 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 10 | Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
| 13 | So much so that , despite the recession , more than 250,000 new businesses have been started in the last 12 months — and over a third were set up by women . |
| 14 | Committees for negotiations on teachers ' pay were set up by this Act , which also laid down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached . |
| 15 | The Scottish Office produced a manual and a guide to legislation and support structures were set up by central government and education authorities to provide information and to respond to board queries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Road blocks were set up by Lothian and Borders police and neighbouring forces were also helping . |
| 18 | What is likely is that the royal burgh and its muir were set up by David 's brother , Alexander I , in about 1120 , but what is certain is that when David founded Holyrood Abbey in 1128 , or soon after , his charter makes it clear that Edinburgh was by then a going concern . |
| 19 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 20 | These were set off by news of Bayonne , of Murat 's executions of the patriots of the 2nd of May in Madrid , or of the failure of the authorities to celebrate the feast of St. Ferdinand . |
| 21 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 22 | To ensure compliance by motorists , standards for 30 km/h streets were set out by the Ministry of Transport . |