Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a [adj] committee [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They undertook to set up a technical committee to oversee the ceasefire , under the supervision of ECOWAS ( the Economic Community of West African States ) , and to declare all ports and airports " military-free zones " . |
| 2 | SCOTVEC therefore welcomed the decision of SED to set up a small committee to look at the module/short course issues , particularly in the context of schools ' S3/4 stages . |
| 3 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 4 | The government was on stronger ground with the proposal to set up a coordinating committee to act as a channel of communication , mainly to the Home Office , for up to thirty organisations involved with refugees . |
| 5 | To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will set up a Select Committee to consider the investigations into the Lockerbie air disaster . |
| 6 | The Periodical Publishers Association and Newspaper Society have already set up a working committee to campaign against the imposition of VAT on magazines and newspapers . |
| 7 | In recent months , Sir Keith has set up a national committee to explore some of these possibilities . |
| 8 | The agreement included a clause setting up a joint committee to oversee air quality . |
| 9 | So it was a happy coincidence that the Rev Alan Mackenzie at the same Congress was able to announce that he had recently attended a meeting between Sir Keith Joseph , then Secretary of State for Social Services , and representatives of other national voluntary organisations concerned with the deaf and the hard of hearing , where the Minister 's intention of setting up a permanent committee to help and advise him had been discussed . |
| 10 | In 1977 UNEP set up a co-ordinating committee to review research and calculate projections for ozone depletion . |
| 11 | There were echoes here of 1984 , the year in which the main associations of the book world set up a joint committee to run a vigorous campaign to fight the then Thatcher government 's rumoured intention of levying a positive rate of VAT on books and learned journals . |
| 12 | And the EEC this year set up a technical committee to help the development of trolleybuses . |