Example sentences of "committee was set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |
2 | After an initiative by JWT , a committee was set up under former Treasury mandarin Sir Leon Pliatzky to examine production practices and to recommend action to control cost inflation . |
3 | The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament . |
4 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
5 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
6 | Though an Interagency Country Risk Exposure Review Committee was set up in 1978 to assemble the facts , no one insisted that the banks took notice of them or acted accordingly . |