Example sentences of "set up [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various recent legal enactments covering food safety and the environment have required the Catering Branch to set up continues review procedures . |
| 2 | The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment , given permission to set up monitoring stations on the peninsula in 1989 , refused to comment on the radio report but confirmed that " life expectancy on the Kola Peninsula is approximately 42 years " . |
| 3 | Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' . |
| 4 | Would it be worthwhile for each discipline to set up think tanks — if one does not already exist — of their most imaginative scientists , engineers etc , with , perhaps , three remits : ( i ) to identify major problems for which current and foreseeable knowledge offers no solution ; ( ii ) to pinpoint what basic knowledge is needed , what would be the characteristics of the ideal chemical or other material , together with the relevant techniques for using them ; ( iii ) recognising that what is being considered may be so far out of sight as to be beyond worthwhile research based on existing knowledge and know-how , to organise a system that will recognise the first appearance of the new knowledge and then steer research in the right direction without delay . |
| 5 | With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose . |
| 6 | It 's the first and so far only British union to employ a full-time officer in Brussels , giving you direct access to the law-making process and E C funds to set up to benefit trade unions . |
| 7 | Next year Xionics plans to quadruple production at its factory in Letchworth and to set up deals to sell the products in Europe and the Middle East . |
| 8 | Rarely can two sets of forwards have covered so much ground and sustained so furious a pace in their efforts to set up scoring chances . |
| 9 | It was only when this war was settled , and England embarked on a period of forty years of almost unbroken peace , that settlement began in North America and in the West Indies , and that trade with India became regular and organized enough for the English to set up trading posts there . |
| 10 | The latter are legislative committees set up to take the committee stage of a bill and they have to reflect the division of party strength that exists on the floor of the House . |
| 11 | The council , after hearing reports of commissions set up to canvass popular opinion , also firmly rejected a return to a multiparty system . |
| 12 | All " treaties and agreements " entered into during the Vietnamese occupation must be cancelled , he said , new borders delineated between Cambodia and Vietnam , and special SNC committees set up to control the Phnom Penh adminstration and the police . |
| 13 | But he opposed any suggestion that representatives of the environmental movement might sit on the technical committees set up to decide on the safety of any release of genetically manipulated organisms into the environment . |
| 14 | He was put in an oxygen tent with alarms set up to go off if he stopped breathing or if the oxygen in his blood dropped too low . |
| 15 | some writers set up publishing companies for tax purposes . |
| 16 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 17 | I said , ‘ Yeah , you 're right , ’ so we set up Chasing Promotions . |
| 18 | Oracles set up to confer green rites on business-priests are booming . |
| 19 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 20 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 21 | These are insurance subsidiaries set up to insure some or all of the risks of a group of companies . |
| 22 | Yet it looks as if that most precious of ladies may be about to be raped — and what is more , by the very group of her countrymen set up to defend her honour and purity . |
| 23 | Set up to tackle problems faced by local communities in north west Edinburgh , the NEAR ( Northwest Edinburgh Area Renewal ) project is made up of a number of organisations committed to working together . |
| 24 | So , they set up Phonelink to provide the ‘ Datacare ’ bureau service . |
| 25 | CISCO is seeking division of the Official List into segments with categories of companies set up according to their market capitalisation . |
| 26 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 27 | Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court . |
| 28 | So far the great bulk of archives set up to handle this material focus on collecting datasets created by research projects ( Doorn 1993 ; Lievesley 1993 ; Marker 1993 ; Nemeth 1993 ) . |
| 29 | Until the complex family trusts set up to protect his inheritance are unravelled , the liabilities of the new Lord Spencer remain unclear . |
| 30 | Set up to protect wildlife across Europe , the organisation expands upon the tradition of Britain 's National Trust . |