Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] set up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 2 | The Comintern , completely disregarding their past policy , called upon " all Communist Parties to make yet another attempt to set up the united front of struggle with the social democratic workers through the medium of the social democratic parties " . |
| 3 | Such a compelling clash would also put the gloss on the remarkable atmosphere which was generated during Saturday 's Royal Bank international with Wales , Scotland 's 20-0 victory setting up the tantalising finale to the season . |
| 4 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 5 | In 1917 the British government set up a new department of overseas trade designed to bring commerce and foreign policy into more effective contact : its head was to be responsible to both the foreign secretary and the president of the board of trade . |
| 6 | And the EEC this year set up a technical committee to help the development of trolleybuses . |
| 7 | As a movement in the same direction the German foreign office set up a legal and commercial department in 1885 and the British one acquired a legal adviser in 1893 ( a post of Legal Assistant Under-Secretary had already been created in 1876 ) . |
| 8 | The hypnotic induction sets up a peculiar state of ‘ dissociated consciousness ’ |
| 9 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
| 10 | During a 24-hour visit to Argentina on March 2-3 , 1990 , President Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Menem signed a joint declaration setting up a ministerial commission for political co-ordination and integration . |
| 11 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |
| 12 | In July 1918 these universities set up a Joint Standing Committee of Convocations , intended to be non-political and non-partisan , the main purpose being the selection , on approved educational grounds , of candidates for the parliamentary constituency . |
| 13 | We we we 're empowered er by these orders to set up the new constituencies , er they do not actually come into effect to enable the elections to be held upon them er until all the countries of the E E C have agreed the changes that are necessary to accommodate the new numbers that er they will be having , er so the act , the ninety three act , has a commencement hour within it . |
| 14 | Odinga , who resigned as Kenya 's Vice-President in 1966 , told a press conference that the NDP would seek formal registration and the repeal of provisions in the national Constitution setting up the single party state . |
| 15 | ‘ Valerie , ’ he said to me , ‘ I 'll have to take these two to my mother again , ’ at which the little ones set up an ungrateful wail , ‘ but I 'll be back as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Sheffield , too , had such links ( even before reorganization ) formalized in an Industrial Development Advisory Committee , involving representatives of industry , trade unions , central government departments as well as the city council , and in the late 1970s Nottinghamshire set up an economic forum involving similar groups ( Johnson and Cochrane , 1981 , p. 171 ) . |
| 17 | A neat interchange in the 24th minute set up a good chance for Dinamo 's Djamaravli , but he scooped his shot high and wide . |
| 18 | In the UK , the most notable defection from an international company to set up an independent search business has been that by David Norman and Miles Broadbent , who were both previous Mds of Russell Reynolds in London , and who took with them other colleagues to found Norman Broadbent . |
| 19 | In France , the post-war nationalizations set up a tripartite scheme of management with representation of users , public authorities and employees ( Dubois 1975 : 161–3 ; Holter 1982 ) . |
| 20 | In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters . |
| 21 | The two forged blocks set up a visual field where the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture . |
| 22 | The Labour Party promptly changed its position and in October 1974 ( when the SNP won eleven seats with 30 per cent of the Scottish vote ) promised to bring in legislative devolution setting up a Scottish Assembly with most of the functions of the secretary of state in the hands of a separate Scottish executive responsible to that Assembly . |
| 23 | POLITICAL prevarication is blocking moves to set up an international agency to monitor military activity throughout the world using a network of spy satellites . |
| 24 | Not a full-time neglect , but one which sets her as a decoration on the perimeter of his life as a busy executive setting up a new venture . |
| 25 | This departure from the rigid procedures of experimental psychology sets up a radical challenge to the conventional discipline . |
| 26 | In 1977 UNEP set up a co-ordinating committee to review research and calculate projections for ozone depletion . |
| 27 | Discontent over the operation of the new service was one of the factors that led the Labour government to set up a Royal Commission on the National Health Service in 1976 . |
| 28 | One of the first cities to set up an Architectural Department in 1938 , an exhibition in May-June 1939 illustrated plans for a redesigned civic centre , with lectures by such well known authorities on town planning as Thomas Sharp , author of Oxford Re-planned , and Clough Williams-Ellis , builder of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in Snowdonia . |
| 29 | Wherever Jews were to be found — whether in the Holy Land or in the far-flung Diaspora — his name had become a household word as one of the select band of zealots whose spirit had never relinquished the hope of one day setting up a Jewish state in Palestine . |
| 30 | In 1887 Davies set up a limited liability company , the Ocean Coal Company , with a nominal capital of £536,000 . |