Example sentences of "setting up [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The conference voted by 4,592,000 votes to 1,443,000 to reject a motion advocating the setting up of a working party to consider options for electoral reform .
2 Germany has also resisted the setting up of a unified life assurance market .
3 However , a Nationalist motion calling for the setting up of a small committee to be responsible for housing allocations was rejected .
4 In the six years since the Mulla Committee 's report , there has been a certain amount of further progress , including increases in the prison budget , some new instructions from the central government to the states , and the setting up of a small policy section within the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider the implementation of the recommendations .
5 From today 's disclosures , it would appear that the savings that would come from the setting up of a small number of large authorities will be less than was originally suggested .
6 The silver bugle light infantry badge is returning to Hartlepool after 50 years with the setting up of a new army cadet force detachment which is looking for boys and girls aged between 13 and 18 to go along on Monday at 7pm to St James Church Hall , Rossmere Way .
7 Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness .
8 In return for this anonymity and help with the setting up of a new life , the Legion demanded five years ' service , wherever they chose to send you .
9 More broadly , Mr Reynolds referred to developments in the funding and expansion of cultural institutions under his department and noted the setting up of a new Department of Arts , Culture and the Gaeltacht .
10 Lady Wagner , who spoke at the conference said : ‘ I am extremely disappointed that the minister did not announce the setting up of a new group to take on from where we are now . ’
11 The setting up of a new form of Ulster Club organization involving paramilitary activity in the wake of the Anglo-Irish accord of 1985 , is an added dimension to the struggle for power within the alliance .
12 The result was the setting up of a 16 point Green Plan .
13 This GLEB report focused mainly on the manufacturing aspect of the independent sector and recommended the setting up of a modern plant to make records for the smaller companies .
14 The main points in the communique which was immediately issued included , a ) parallel statements by each government regarding the status of Northern Ireland b ) the setting up of a Council of Ireland c ) the setting up of a joint committee to consider the creation of a law enforcement area covering the whole island d ) consultation on , and coordination of , policing .
15 This had led to the setting up of a joint system of financial control .
16 On Dec. 5 the Arab League Council , after meeting in Cairo , issued a statement expressing " solidarity " with Libya , and calling for the avoidance of any military or economic action against Libya and for the setting up of a joint Arab League-UN committee " to study all the documents connected with the incident " .
17 The Germans , already in the country in large numbers , had seized Rome , and Hitler had ordered the setting up of a political system which would take effective control of the country and also take under its wing any future Fascist administration .
18 The Unitarian minister had established a reading room in Yeovil in 1842 , and in 1849 the Rev F.R. Robertson formed the first Working Men 's Institute at Brighton closely followed by the setting up of a similar Institute in South Shields .
19 Enquiries are being made with regard to the setting up of a private nursery .
20 It will go towards the setting up of a north-eastern branch of the charity which arranges holidays for children with terminal illnesses .
21 Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) .
22 Recommendations included the use of day , rather than boarding , schools wherever possible ; the setting up of a comprehensive Child Guidance Service in every LEA , with a strengthened role for educational psychologists ; and the introduction of preventive measures such as increased nursery provision .
23 RIBA Council , on the recommendation of the regional council , approved the setting up of a fifth branch in the region to serve the members in Central Wales .
24 The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London .
25 ( 1975 ) also involved the setting up of a controlled situation in order to test an hypothesis .
26 The growth of even limited literacy — and particularly the introduction of written records — laid the foundations for the dispossession of land , the setting up of a centralized bureaucracy and the suppression of indigenous cultures .
27 The summit approved measures designed to accelerate economic integration among member states ; these included the setting up of a regional bank specializing in inter-community trade , measures to improve transport links , and the holding of a trade fair in Kinshasa ( Zaïre ) in July 1990 .
28 Austria is expected to propose at the conference the setting up of a European Migration Charter , a document which will have to be elaborated on later .
29 However , Friends of the Earth , whilst supporting the setting up of a European Environment Agency , suggested that an inspectorate attached to the European Commission could have an investigative role in member countries .
30 In the social work field this was strikingly acknowledged by the Curtis Committee on the care of children , which recommended the setting up of a Central Training Council on Child Care before it published its final report recommending radical changes in the organization of the care of deprived children .
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