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

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1 The Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , which had passed resolutions in favour of both workers ' control and nationalization , supported state control and in order to avoid industrial conflict the Lloyd George Coalition government set up a royal commission , chaired by Lord Sankey , to investigate the coal industry .
2 Nick Bollettieri , whose Bradenton , Florida Coaching Academy continues to be the base for a whole host of tennis champions , including currently , Andre Agassi , and who is committed to helping the Lawn Tennis Association to set up a similar training base her in the UK , has , in conjunction with adidas , launched a fast and functional range of tennis apparel for this country .
3 In the same year , the Home Secretary set up an internal committee to examine how the right to silence might best be modified in England and Wales .
4 But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office .
5 Similarly , where Community law sets up a comprehensive system of health controls on export , as in trade in fresh poultrymeat , the importing Member State may no longer impose systematic checks on importation under its own law .
6 The decision of the Post Office to set up the British Broadcasting Company in 1922 as a co-operative of radio set manufacturers was an attempt to overcome a series of essentially technical and organizational problems : the need to satisfy set manufacturers by ensuring that all participated in the birth and development of broadcasting , the need to avoid chaos on the airwaves on the American scale , and the need to guarantee an efficient and satisfactory service to all listeners .
7 The concept of confidentiality was considered in the case of Thomas Marshall ( Exports ) Ltd. v Guinle [ 1976 ] , in which the defendant , who was the managing director of the plaintiff company , resigned half-way through his 10 year service contract to set up a rival business .
8 When was invited to conduct a review of the topic in the summer the Public Affairs Committee set up a working party ( Chairman : QC ) , and the report has been submitted to .
9 The 1944 Education Act set up a national educational system which was locally administered .
10 Recently , Steve gave up his joinery business to set up a small security firm , hoping for more time to devote to the much-needed rescue .
11 Pan Macmillan has appointed Ellen Grout contracts manager to set up a new department responsible for negotiating Pan Macmillan 's head contracts .
12 In 1987 , the US Drug Enforcement Administration set up a dummy company called Eurame here in Nicosia , on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus .
13 This error could arise in two ways : either LIFESPAN is not running , or the ( correct ) user access file to set up the required logical names has not been invoked .
14 This error could arise in two ways : either LIFESPAN is not running , or the user access file to set up the required logical names has not been invoked .
15 Prior to running the software , the user should check that LIFESPAN is running with facilities made available , and should then invoke the LIFESPAN user access file to set up the necessary logical names ( see the ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ ) .
16 Prior to running LIFESPAN PMR , the user should check that LIFESPAN is running with facilities made available , and should then invoke the LIFESPAN user access file to set up the necessary logical names ( see ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ ) .
17 Meanwhile , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 13 , the State Council set up a special group to co-ordinate the government 's response to the Shenzhen riot , headed by Zou Jiahua , a Vice-Premier and the Minister in charge of the State Planning Commission .
18 And so did Elvis have his road crew set up a mighty speaker system outside the walls .
19 There were echoes here of 1984 , the year in which the main associations of the book world set up a joint committee to run a vigorous campaign to fight the then Thatcher government 's rumoured intention of levying a positive rate of VAT on books and learned journals .
20 Response to the Jordan project appeal to set up a non-alcoholic bar in Cambridge has been excellent .
21 At Local Government reorganisation in 1974 he was appointed as the Field Officer to set up the innovatory Biological Databank .
22 Wingers Evans and Hadley scored tries in a four-minute spell inside the last 15 minutes , while a late Paul Hulme try set up a thrilling finish in a generally untidy game .
23 They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg .
24 However , before that , in December , AWSD announced internally that it had cut a similar deal with IBM 's Entry Systems Technology Group to set up a Personal RISC Systems joint venture to design , build and market all of the company 's PowerPC-based goods as well as such items as the X terminals and PC-priced M20 baby RS/6000s introduced last week .
25 In October the human rights organization , Amnesty International , called on the SWAPO government to set up an impartial inquiry , claiming that at least 350 prisoners were still unaccounted for .
26 Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John Finn set up a .50 calibre gun and fired on the attackers , he was wounded several times but continued to fight back , later he was awarded the Medal of Honour .
27 In January 1990 the Bonn government set up a special working group to examine the benefits open to refugees from East Germany following widespread discontent .
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