Example sentences of "a [noun] set up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 2 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 3 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 4 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 5 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 6 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 7 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 8 | The programme entitled " Socialism , Democracy , Progress " , written by Gorbachev and his aide , Georgii Shakhnazarov , after drafting by a commission set up at the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , unequivocally condemned Stalinism , and committed the party to forming a " controlled market economy " ( including the principle of private ownership ) , and to converting the Soviet Union into a " democratic federation of sovereign republics " , thereby recognizing " the principle of independence of the republican parties included in the CPSU " . |
| 9 | ‘ And he dreamed , and behold a ladder set up on the earth , and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it . ’ |
| 10 | The experiment in the Morton salt Mine in Ohio is one of a number set up around the world to do just this . |
| 11 | All processing and refining of mine output is now carried out in South Africa and its management vested in Matthey Rustenburg Refiners ( MRR ) , a company set up in the 1960's by Johnson Matthey and RPM . |
| 12 | While Jane makes a living from her pottery skills using a workshop set up in the garage , her father regards art more as pleasure than source of income . |