Example sentences of "[conj] to set up a " in BNC.

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1 Would a trust , for example to construct a public building or to set up a private monument , actually be enforced as such ?
2 Mrs Peysner hopes that the money will be used instead to improve day facilities for this group at other homes or to set up a mobile day unit .
3 The positive reactions are attempts to re-create the trauma , to re-experience it , or to set up a relationship analogous to an earlier one .
4 For through sponsorship , ActionAid is working to improve farming methods and educational facilities , and to set up a community development programme so the villagers themselves learn how to identify problems and deal with them more effectively .
5 In the afternoon session there was an equally irritable wrangle over a proposal to adopt a law on compliance with the constitution , and to set up a committee for the purpose .
6 But Leeds City found a saviour in Mr J. Connor , secretary of the West Riding Football Association , who with four other local citizens decided to form a syndicate , with himself as chairman , to keep the club at Elland Road , and to set up a limited liability company .
7 Then , influenced by his aunt Naomi Treen ( née Cubitt ) , a teacher at an elementary school practising Pestalozzian methods , he obtained in 1851 the post of master at Holy Trinity National School , Lambeth , where the progressive vicar , the Revd James Gillman , allowed him to pioneer revolutionary teaching methods in natural history and to set up a school museum .
8 In a broadcast on May 3 Croatia 's President Franjo Tudjman blamed Serbian nationalists and Chetniks ( fascists ) for trying to provoke military intervention , to destroy Croatian democracy and to set up a " Serboslavia " or Greater Serbia .
9 Meeting in the Bulgarian port of Verna , officials from the six states agreed to establish marine protection centres in each country , and to set up a $32 million fund to support work on reducing oil , chemical and biological pollution and to improve fishing conditions .
10 What a waste of time , we all know that the county council is the the highway authority and is fully responsible for traffic management , we 're in a minority and to set up a working party is a complete waste of time . .
11 to begin working on next year 's pay claim and to set up a working group to consider new strategies for the campaign ;
12 The brief descriptions of the récit and the first entrée ( shown in their entirety in illus.l ) suggest that the opening numbers of the ballet served not only to introduce the subject of the work , but to set up a mechanism for getting the musicians on stage .
13 ‘ We are aware there is a degree of anxiety among the public and so we have taken steps not only to contact those people concerned but to set up a helpline so any member of the public can ring in and have private counselling . ’
14 And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances .
15 On May 28 Kaunda announced plans to sell 40 per cent of shares in public utilities and services and 49 per cent of shares in state mining , industrial and commercial enterprises , as well as to set up a stock exchange , a move perceived as a way of attracting more aid from Western donors .
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