Example sentences of "[noun] set up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature . |
| 2 | In August 1990 opposition parties set up a Democratic Antitotalitarian Forum , in February 1991 a National Convention of the Extra Parliamentary Opposition was set up , and in May 1991 a National Convention for the Establishment of Democracy was created . |
| 3 | His words set up a buzz in Sylvie 's mind . |
| 4 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 5 | The Scottish nobles set up a Regency Council with control of Margaret 's baby sons , one of whom , Alexander , Duke of Ross , dies soon after his mother 's sudden departure for England . |
| 6 | FoE blames the rise of the supermarket for the decline in the use of the refillable bottle , and cites a survey last year which showed that 84 per cent of shoppers would be prepared to return containers to retailers if supermarkets set up a suitable system . |
| 7 | The exiles set up a medical school at Jundishapur , south of modern Teheran , where their arcane and esoteric formulae were stolen by the Arabs during the early conquests of Islam . |
| 8 | We did not have an echo chamber at CBR , so when Lance Sieveking required an echo effect our engineers set up a microphone in the gentlemen 's washroom where the reverberation off tiled walls and floor gave the desired effect . |
| 9 | The two forged blocks set up a visual field where the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture . |
| 10 | The investigators set up a bogus export company and contacted more than 130 Hunts . |
| 11 | Impatient of the slow progress made through the ‘ official channels ’ local lawyers and community workers set up a law centre in North Kensington in 1970 . |
| 12 | In Gambia in the mid '80's , a number of well-known aid agencies and charities set up a rice production project . |
| 13 | Among the report 's recommendations are that the DoH , DoE , and charities set up a special unit to facilitate local provision for homeless youngsters . |
| 14 | Police patrolled the streets and troops set up a road block and checked all vehicles entering or leaving . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In August the Young Republicans set up a front organisation , the People 's Action League , which planned to campaign on the issue of high-rise flats , and picketed the Guildhall , calling for an extension of the city boundary and , on another occasion , at the siting of a new Michelin factory at Ballymena in County Antrim instead of Derry . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | In 1988 the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors set up a ‘ cut-price ’ arrangement which enabled house-buyers to take disputes about house surveys to arbitration . |
| 19 | Firefighters set up a water curtain to contain the smoke and fumes . |
| 20 | Staff set up a special emergency room with phene lines to give out information . |
| 21 | When two or more people set up a business together , they form a partnership . |
| 22 | From a free-kick for foot-up at the scrum , Sonians set up a ruck from where Scott Hastings , at stand-off , chipped through . |
| 23 | Under cover of the so-called United Nations Commission for Korea , American ruling circles set up a puppet ‘ Government ’ under the traitor Syngman Rhee , who traded away the independence and national wealth . |
| 24 | Friends set up a ten thousand pounds reward for any information in the inquiry . |
| 25 | In each text , the first two sentences set up a context that makes a different one of these two structures more plausible by allowing fully referential success only for that one structure . |
| 26 | The occupying forces set up a puppet government and proclaimed it independent of Russia . |
| 27 | Restorers set up a temporary studio in the northwest end of the nave , with a glass wall allowing the public to follow the work in progress . |
| 28 | Yesterday officers from the City of London police set up a roadblock on Lower Thames Street — a scene which will now be repeated throughout the country . |
| 29 | That parishes set up a worship committee , where there is none , in order to advise the incumbent and Parochial Church Council , and to support their organist or director of music ( 555–556 , 579–580 ) . |
| 30 | Twenty or so young adults armed with pickaxe handles set up a road-block sealing off Sidi Hasan , the Zuwaya ward in the south-west of the town , for two days . |