Example sentences of "[adj] set up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime . |
| 2 | On becoming choirmaster at south Hackney parish church ( 1872–5 ) Hunt gathered the support of leading organists in London and in 1872 set up an independent institution to provide better training for church musicians . |
| 3 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 4 | This set up a national Poor Law Commission to superintend the system , and formed the parishes into groups known as poor law unions . |
| 5 | This set up an Audit Commission for local authorities in England and Wales . |
| 6 | This set up an Examinations Council , GCE Board and CSE Board in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | After considerable lobbying , the Television Act was passed in 1954 and this set up the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) to supervise a federal structure of commercially funded television companies , each serving a different region or market . |
| 8 | This set up the General Teaching Council for Scotland to deal with the training , registration and professional conduct of Scottish teachers . |
| 9 | This set up the next cycle by index arbitrageurs , and so on . |
| 10 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | To alleviate hardship when a bank becomes insolvent the Banking Act 1979 set up the Deposit Protection Fund . |
| 12 | Local government Acts in 1888 and 1894 set up a system of local authorities that was to remain almost unchanged until the 1970s . |
| 13 | In the Habsburg territories in central Europe , which because of their exposed geographical position and limited economic strength greatly needed an effective and well-controlled foreign policy , the Emperor Joseph I in 1709 set up a new committee of nine officials for this purpose . |
| 14 | A generation later , in 1747 , Frederick II set up a training school for the Prussian diplomatic service , again on a small scale . |
| 15 | Following a military coup in 1980 legislative and executive powers were assumed by a National Security Council ( NSC ) led by Gen. Kenan Evren , which in October 1981 set up a Consultative Assembly to draft a new constitution which was approved by referendum in November 1982 . |
| 16 | Last year twenty thousand set up a tented shanty town on the site , taking police by surprise and enraging local people . |
| 17 | The first small groups to be provided with pensions were the lower-paid naval warrant officers in 1672 , and soon afterwards customs officers ; while an Act of 1749 set up a scheme for master merchant mariners . |
| 18 | What changes in the 1970s set up the forces , working through the world market and multinational corporation networks , to generate a new international division of labour ? |
| 19 | The government on Feb. 16 set up a commission to establish the full truth of the invasion by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968 which brought the Dubcek reformist regime to an end [ see p. 22909 ] . |
| 20 | The DC on May 8 set up a special commission to manage the affairs of its Milan branch . |
| 21 | They included ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ and ‘ Mallard ’ , which in 193 8 set up the world speed record for a steam locomotive of 126 m.p.h. , and which can now be seen at York ( q.v . ) . |
| 22 | After the war , the two set up a business after a false start in the home-appliance market manufacturing rice cookers . |
| 23 | In a related development , the two countries in February 1990 set up a special " hotline " to notify each other of oil spills in the Barents Sea and agreed to arrange joint oil-pollution control exercises . |
| 24 | President Suharto on Nov. 19 set up a seven-person commission to investigate the Dili incident , headed by Chief Justice Jaelani , a retired army general , and comprising officials from the Home Affairs , Foreign and Justice Ministries , and representatives from the Supreme Court , armed forces and parliament . |