Example sentences of "set up last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set up last century by charitable foundations to support local cultural activities and to combat usury , they have become big business . |
| 2 | There is also Cortex which we set up last year as a process engineering consultancy with a keen interest in environmental work . |
| 3 | Retail , which refuses to disclose the terms of the deal , was set up last year with £10m of City capital and is headed by Malcolm Parkinson , the former B & Q managing director . |
| 4 | The ISE Council yesterday considered a progress report from the special committee on the domestic equity market , chaired by Nigel Elwes , which was set up last year to examine stock market procedures in the wake of the October 1987 crash . |
| 5 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 6 | One of the few bright spots at Daimler is DEBIS , the financial-services operation which has turned in a modest profit on sales of DM3.8 billion since being set up last year . |
| 7 | A working party was set up last July to advise on this University 's contribution to IY , and one of its recommendations , approved by Senate at its meeting of November 18th , is that each Faculty should nominate a member of staff to ‘ shadow ’ some person employed at senior management level in local manufacturing industry , nominated through CRUM , in the course of the winter term . |
| 8 | He was appointed director of the council when it was set up last year . |
| 9 | IE Displays Ltd , of Rectory Road , Great Bromley , was set up last May and designs and supplies illuminated acrylic advertisement display cases . |
| 10 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 11 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 12 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 13 | For the wealthy , there 's the garden of intrigue , a permanent display costing forty thousand pounds which was set up last year by a local nursery.Those with tiny gardens and less money could gain inspiration from the series of patio gardens designed for the show . |
| 14 | It was set up last year at the behest of the Labour leader , John Smith , but has an independent life under Sir Gordon Borrie , former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 15 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 16 | Unless German taxpayers allow the Treuhandanstalt , a trust set up last year to privatise eastern Germany 's 8,000 state firms , to write off many of these debts , none of these companies has much chance of surviving . |
| 17 | Although these requirements are now clear , classification of other technical issues await the White Paper and the technical report by a working party set up last year by the Department of Industry . |
| 18 | Open meetings were first suggested by a working party set up last year to discuss the introduction of a ‘ sunshine policy ’ at the Institute ( see ACCOUNTANCY , February , p 13 ) . |
| 19 | THE British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association set up last year by a Mr Alan Davy has declared a membership of 1,300 . |
| 20 | The Alliance , set up last month , comprises local software companies such as Software602 , APP Systems , AutoDesk Inc and the Czech branch of Microsoft Corp . |
| 21 | Siemens AG says it won a Bulgarian contract worth more than $6.3m to modernise and expand the country 's telephone systems : Siemens will deliver more than 80,000 EWSD digital exchange lines and fibre cable : its Digicom Bulgarian joint venture set up last year with a local partner , will install the kit in Sophia and in northern Bulgaria by 1996 . |
| 22 | Oracle Corp 's new division set up last year to explore new technologies said that telecommunications was one of the first areas of interest , and good as its word , on May 11 , it will announce an alliance with US West Inc aimed at providing a variety of electronic services to business , schools and homes , including mail and voice messages , according to the Wall Street Journal . |
| 23 | Nick Polkinhorne ( using less sophisticated software than Mr Ferris : an overhead projector ) offered a demonstration of how to use TeleOrdering ; Kevin Allard did the same with First Edition , the EDI service for the book trade set up last year by Book Data and Vista . |
| 24 | We got a grant from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , which the government set up last year . |
| 25 | It is part of a wider scheme set up last year by the social development department of the HIDB to enable talented youngsters in the area to achieve sporting and artistic excellence . |
| 26 | And drastic measures are needed in the Serious Fraud Office , set up last year , to ensure that it moves at something more than a glacial pace . |
| 27 | A DOE public information phone line , set up last year , which gives information on sulphur and nitrogen-XXXX related pollution , receives only about a dozen calls a week . |
| 28 | The researchers are working for the Frog Mortality Project , set up last year amidst reports of rapid and inexplicable declines in amphibian numbers worldwide [ see EDs 72/73 ; 51 ; 49 ; 47 ; 44 ] . |
| 29 | It will monitor a range of hydrocarbons which the first station , set up last year , can not detect . |
| 30 | One of the prime movers is Recoup [ RECycling Of Used Plastic containers ] , a non-profit making company set up last year by resin manufacturers , bottle blowers and machinery manufacturers , fillers and users of plastic bottle packaging . |