Example sentences of "be set [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new international organisation , the Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ) , has been set up by environmental groups with the aim of setting worldwide standards for good forest management . |
| 2 | Merton is the second of two major ventures in the recruiting business which have been set up by entrepreneurial Michael Silverman . |
| 3 | The Fondation Amazonie has been set up by Belgian film maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux , formerly among the leading lights of pop singer Sting 's Rainforest Foundation . |
| 4 | Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September . |
| 5 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 6 | Local businesses responded generously to an appeal from School , and a generous grant was received from a fund which had been set up by leading industrialists to help Independent Schools to provide buildings and equipment for Scientific teaching and research . |
| 7 | Attempts to bolster the numbers of the endangered rufous hare wallaby in the Australian outback have been set back by domestic cats , which have killed 11 of the rare animals introduced to remote areas after a captive breeding programme . |
| 8 | A new company is to be set up by Sanken Electric of Japan , and the Gooding Group of the UK , to manufacture special types of power supplies for the electronic and computer industry . |
| 9 | Although many of the assessment centres are expected to be linked to colleges and universities , they are also likely to be set up by private consultants , individual companies and even groups of companies working together . |
| 10 | These new , relatively small , selective colleges are to be set up by private sponsors , with government grants to provide a free education with a technological emphasis for 11–16-year-olds . |
| 11 | An additional , optional logical name may be set up by each user if he or she wishes to store cached information from one LIFESPAN logon session to another . |
| 12 | ‘ Cities of the Immortals ’ will be set up by California-based company called the Heaven on Earth Corporation , many of them providing low-cost housing for the Third World . |
| 13 | Roman law never did have a doctrine that trusts should be set up by imperative words . |
| 14 | The attacks came without warning and did n't seem to be set off by any direct thought about being moved . |
| 15 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They refer to the mines being set up by some Londoners and others " … of which nature they conceive this Copper worke to be , but to spend a farr greater proportion of fewell and therefore more odious , the redress wherof we leave to your honbl consideration . " |
| 22 | The façade is wonderfully elegant , the Baroque dressing being set off by superb windows . |
| 23 | Indeed Gow 's appearance was formidable , an uncompromisingly Scottish kind of countenance being set off by bushy eyebrows and side-whiskers , and anything like conceit or pretentiousness on the part of a pupil might provoke a wounding sarcasm . |
| 24 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |
| 25 | It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ The Ulster Resistance Movement was set up by loyalist politicians , and it 's their guns that are now killing innocent people . ’ |
| 27 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 28 | Quite sure that you 'll find in the end that I 'm right and it was set up by murdering bog-trotters . |
| 29 | It was set up by three sisters with funds from their family 's whisky business . |
| 30 | WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name . |