Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a [adj] commission [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) .
2 Discontent over the operation of the new service was one of the factors that led the Labour government to set up a Royal Commission on the National Health Service in 1976 .
3 Agreement was reached on setting up a joint commission of experts to deal with minority questions and on working towards guaranteeing minority rights .
4 During a 24-hour visit to Argentina on March 2-3 , 1990 , President Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Menem signed a joint declaration setting up a ministerial commission for political co-ordination and integration .
5 Before they lost office the Conservatives also responded to the growing evidence on the extent of poverty , and the inadequacies of existing measures , by setting up a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1905 .
6 In 1843 the Government set up a Royal Commission on the Health of Towns ; in 1844 the Health of Towns Association was founded , whose central committee included Disraeli and Lord John Manners , the other moving spirit in the Young England Movement , characterized as Lord Henry Sydney in Coningsby .
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