Example sentences of "set up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having realised that conservation is always likely to fall victim to local poverty , great efforts are being made to set up small-scale sustainable industries which depend on the long-term well-being of the rainforest and other natural ecosystems . |
| 32 | The civil servants belatedly regretted their refusal to set up contributory machinery which , though costly in the short run , would have shifted the cost of future changes in the scheme onto the contributors . |
| 33 | Mr Meacher indicated that a Labour government would be likely to set up new industrial courts presided over by judges with experience in industrial relations and two lay ‘ assessors ’ — one employer and one trade unionist who would advise the judge . |
| 34 | The many and varied attempts by governments both to take over foreign assets and to set up new state-owned businesses , have seldom been successful . |
| 35 | By the 1940s and 1950s the Red Poll was one of Britain 's major breeds but , in the rush to set up new herds , breeding standards began to slip badly on the farm , while at the same time the invading Friesian , fed on concentrates , considerably outyielded the breed and by the early 1960s its popularity had tumbled . |
| 36 | Governments may adopt various industrial , regional and fiscal policies designed to increase the incentive to entrepreneurs to set up new businesses and possibly also to reduce the ‘ red tape ’ involved . |
| 37 | Tutors are appointed as and when required and this makes it possible to set up new classes without too much preamble . |
| 38 | SoVam Teleport , now part-owned by Cable & Wireless Plc here in London , has established a new packet switching node in Ufa , Bashkirria : the new facility will enable the company to market dedicated communications lines between the city and Moscow , with connections to the rest of the public network ; Ufa is a centre of oil industry enterprises and it is at these customers that SoVam is targeting its new service ; the company also aims to set up new nodes in the cities of Chelyabinsk , Salavat and Sterlitomak in the near future . |
| 39 | The radical change in Soviet policy was epitomised when Western investors were warmly invited to buy into state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ) or to set up new ventures , all with the ability freely to repatriate their profits . |
| 40 | Talking in small groups about anything without the supervising presence of a teacher is educational because it is heuristic : it helps children to set up possibilities , and to knock them down , and to set up new ones . |
| 41 | Most significant was the process by which peasants divided large households to set up new families in their own homes , and merged those which old age and death had rendered unviable . |
| 42 | So there is a range of hidden costs of community care which we have to remember when we are trying to set up new services . |
| 43 | Helps tenants and residents to set up new associations . |
| 44 | The remainder is used to set up new bureaux or develop existing ones , with grant tapering down by year 3 or 4 . |
| 45 | This project worked with existing community groups in the area , helping to set up new groups and acting as a resource for community action . |
| 46 | It would not be in our interests to set up new defence structures that would undermine the role of NATO in safeguarding our defence . |
| 47 | There was discussion on the need for articles encouraging people to set up new groups : Fillan produced some useful material on this , and Eileen referred to studies developed by her group which had subsequently been used by six others . |
| 48 | I do n't know if accounts 'll be ready because they 've got to set up new bank accounts in Norway and Denmark and accounts with the credit card companies in both of the countries separately . |
| 49 | It is the responsibility of the offline manager to log on to LIFESPAN and to set up various parameters for the offline run . |
| 50 | a great share of the blame for military clashes lies with the tsarist voevody who organized campaigns deep into [ native ] lands to set up strong points , to search out new ‘ lands ’ and to return ‘ traitors and unruly elements ’ to subjection . |
| 51 | Company and tax law should be amended to make it easier to set up diversified forms of ownership including profit-sharing schemes . |
| 52 | In the Republic , as in the North , a parents ' movement to set up integrated schools was started around the same time . |
| 53 | Talks held on Nov. 3 between President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia , President Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Mate Boban , effectively the Croatian leader in Bosnia , resulted in an agreement to set up joint commands in the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosna [ see p. 39103 ] . |
| 54 | We have helped to bring about the formation of the International Tropical Timber Organisation — to regulate the industry and to set up sustainable management . |
| 55 | The results show that it has been possible to set up community-based placements which offer much richer social and material environments than the hospitals they replace . |
| 56 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 57 | The campaign to prevent change of clerical control of the school system was also linked to the contemporary campaign to set up catholic university colleges . |
| 58 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 59 | The NetClasses Distributed Services libraries form a connection management mechanism organised so network service providers do n't have to set up explicit port numbers and remote procedure call connections . |
| 60 | This should enable individual members to get in touch with each other , perhaps to set up teacher-researcher groups where none exist . |