Example sentences of "commission [was/were] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 2 | A parliamentary commission was set up on Nov. 13 to establish whether the police had played a role in the recent violence , which continued into the following week in the departments of Jinotega and Estelí where 15 people were killed . |
| 3 | China appealed to the League of Nations for support against the Japanese occupation and in December 1931 a commission was set up under Lord Lytton to investigate the situation . |
| 4 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 5 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 6 | As early as 1968 steps were being taken by the Ministry of Agriculture to conserve two of them ( the Bazadais and the Aubrac ) , while a national commission was set up in 1976 to consider the need for wider conservation measures . |
| 7 | The Commission was set up in December 1977 at the World Bank 's instigation , under the chairmanship of Willy Brandt , former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of West Germany . |
| 8 | The ( private ) National Birth Rate Commission was set up in 1913 ; the Eugenics Society established the Population Investigation Committee in 1935 to analyse the new trends . |
| 9 | The Crown Agents , for example , date from the mid-nineteenth century , the Development Commission was set up in 1909 and the Horserace Totalisator Board ( the Tote ) goes back to 1928 . |
| 10 | A Gauge Commission was set up in 1845 to investigate the problem . |
| 11 | Even in the Ottoman empire a commission was set up in 1885 to examine candidates for entry to Turkish diplomacy . |
| 12 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 13 | The inquiry is the first by the CRE into a single local authority or organisation in Scotland since the commission was set up in 1976 . |
| 14 | The inquiry is the first by the CRE into a single local authority or organisation in Scotland since the commission was set up in 1976 . |