Example sentences of "set up a [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Here she created opportunities for social workers to train in more advanced skills and set up a variety of support and counselling groups .
2 Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana .
3 The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century .
4 It was in response to these pressures , and more particularly its commitment to enhancing equality of opportunity and tackling the problem of underachievement , that the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) set up a committee of enquiry chaired by David Hargreaves .
5 The local City Council set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the policing arrangements for the visit and complaints were made to the Police Complaints Authority .
6 The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt .
7 In March 1918 the Unionist leaders agreed to open up negotiations with Lloyd George 's supporters and set up a subcommittee of Law , Long .
8 In order to compensate firms for the loss of their retention rights , the federal government set up a scheme of export subsidies .
9 This Act set up a Board of Education to supervise the education system .
10 In 1793 Britain set up a Board of Agriculture to promote the growing of potatoes to counter Napoleon 's threat to starve this country into submission .
11 Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London .
12 But it set up a pattern of eating which would take Odette years to break .
13 They could have published a White Paper or set up a commission of inquiry .
14 A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime .
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