Example sentences of "set up a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water is a major problem in this arrid region , so local technicians funded by Oxfam have set up a system with water from a local thermal spring , which up until now has been too salty to use . |
| 2 | He has set up a centre for research into equine exercise physiology and equine sports injury at Bristol University College which hopefully will increase our understanding of equine sports injuries . |
| 3 | It had set up a Committee for Research Degrees in 1965 , as well as a study group on research degrees to look at policy for this activity , and had developed research degree relationships with industrial firms and research establishments . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've set up a sub-group on child protection and invited schools to further training and seminars . |
| 5 | Apart from its original holiday retailing company , it has set up a chain of travel agencies , developed a flight training centre in connection with its Orion airline subsidiary , moved into holiday hotel development and even into selling holiday properties abroad . |
| 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 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 9 | The Cubans hope to make their own spare parts and replacements ; lest that should fail , the state has set up a breeding-station for draft oxen . |
| 10 | 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 . |