Example sentences of "commission was set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Even in the Ottoman empire a commission was set up in 1885 to examine candidates for entry to Turkish diplomacy .
9 A Gauge Commission was set up in 1845 to investigate the problem .
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