Example sentences of "setting [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence Lawson also chaired an ad hoc group of Ministers which led to the setting up of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 2 | The setting up of the Serious Fraud Office was an important development , as were the increased powers of the Department of Trade and Industry under the Financial Services Act 1986 and the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 3 | The setting up of the Working Party on Civil Procedures ( The Heilbron Committee ) was an important development during the year . |
| 4 | Its March 1992 bulletin , though , took a surprisingly simplistic approach to ethnicity and religion , justifying the setting up of the Muslim Parliament by pointing to the racist press coverage it had received . |
| 5 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 6 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 7 | There had been the usual time-consuming , wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies , sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield . |
| 8 | This clause , largely unnoticed during the passage of the act , led to the setting up of the controversial Community Action Programme ( CAP ) . |
| 9 | From about 1864 on , much of Marx 's time and energy was spent in connection with the setting up of the international association of working men , the first International . |
| 10 | The setting up of the European environment agency has stalled because of a lack of agreement over where its headquarters should be . |
| 11 | The nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) , the Ulster Unionists , the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) and the Alliance Party , i.e. all the province 's constitutional parties , would participate , for the first time since the setting up of the Constitutional Convention in 1975 [ see pp. 27161-63 ] . |
| 12 | The first six paragraphs described events leading to the setting up of the Select Committee and the reasons for the choice of witnesses . |
| 13 | The setting up of the Select Committee to look at the whole under-fives area |
| 14 | The delay effectively hindered the setting up of the American end of the Virgin operation . |
| 15 | The setting up of the secret camp and the training of the men was a blind and a cover to fool Medoc , and people who said lugubriously that Medoc could not be fooled did not know what they were talking about . |
| 16 | The second development in 1985 was the setting up of the Urban Housing Renewal Unit within the Department of the Environment . |
| 17 | Far from being ‘ non-interventionist ’ , in this case Mr Lang has not only acted as promoter of the scheme itself , but also as overseer of the setting up of the public inquiry . |
| 18 | Some stop-gap funding was provided immediately for British Lion and this was followed , in April 1949 , by the setting up of the National Film Finance Corporation which the Board of Trade provided with a revolving fund of £5 million ( expanded to £6 million in 1950 ) . |
| 19 | The greatest reform in access to health care was the setting up of the National Health Service in 1948 . |