Example sentences of "had set up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They immediately had to dive for cover , however , as the Germans had set up a pair of machine guns in front of the doors behind hastily piled crates . |
| 2 | As a result , he had set up a meeting of regional engineers , himself , and the deputy inspector of railways . |
| 3 | The South Korean Agency for National Security Planning ( NSP ) announced in early October the discovery of a major North Korean espionage ring which , it said , had set up a cell of the North Korean communist party in the South and undertaken " an overall operation " to bring down the government there . |
| 4 | In some ways , though , Nick — as he insisted people call him — lived in the shadow of his father Alec , a renowned pacifist who had set up a Chair of Peace Studies at Bradford University on the sensible grounds that everywhere else seemed to study war . |
| 5 | Inspired by Talleyrand , the founder of the Dynasty had set up a number of high sounding offices such as Vice Grand Elector and Vice Constable , and to these gothic absurdities were added the ceremonies of the lever and coucher , echoes of the ancien régime . |
| 6 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 7 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 8 | He had come from out of town with a fortune , was known to have been a vociferous Bund supporter before the war and had set up a chain of more or less above-board casinos in the districts where gambling was more or less legal . |
| 9 | By announcing investigations all over Britain it had set up a series of confrontations with the public . |
| 10 | He was sent back to England in 1595 and by 1605 he had set up an organization of recusant Welsh gentry , Welsh secular priests , and Jesuits ( centred in Gwent and extending up the marches ) . |
| 11 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |
| 12 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |