Example sentences of "[vb past] to set up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 , CRL helped to set up a test facility at the University of Cali in Colombia . |
| 2 | Felsted 's record-breaking pair , Michael Martin ( left ) and William Cooper , whose unbroken partnership of 239 helped to set up a crushing victory over Harrow |
| 3 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 4 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 5 | Marcos , it is said , tried to set up a foundation last year to launder - sorry , deposit — the funds to benefit Filipinos , minus a 10 per cent cut for his greedy relatives and 10 per cent for the Vatican . |
| 6 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
| 7 | Barney , he had these two sons — tried to set up a song and dance act . |
| 8 | With the professors ' backing , disaffected St Petersburg students tried to set up a " free university " at the beginning of 1862 , but they gave up the attempt after a month when the government arrested a professor for lecturing in a supposedly provocative manner on the upcoming national millennium . |
| 9 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 10 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 11 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
| 12 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 13 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 14 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) on March 18 obtained a local ceasefire in order to send a mission to Stepanakert , where it planned to set up an operational base . |
| 15 | The two agreed to set up a ‘ process ’ or ‘ structure ’ by which the two governments could together study issues such as the future of NATO and the Western European Union , British-French nuclear co-operation and joint positions on disarmament . |
| 16 | They agreed to set up a Supreme Council of British Mosques to consider how British Muslims should respond to Saddam Hussein 's call for a holy war . |
| 17 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
| 18 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 19 | ‘ We originally agreed to set up a group for mothers whose children were being dealt with in a child protection context , ’ explains the counselling project co-ordinator Hazel Hickson . |
| 20 | Instead , the government and insurers agreed to set up a special fund . |
| 21 | At this meeting the delegates agreed to set up a steering committee consisting of members from Germany , Holland , Italy and Great Britain , with John Young as Chairman . |
| 22 | As the DES decided in 1980 to discontinue its approval arrangements for OND by 1982 and for other courses by 1981 , the Association of County Councils and the Standing Conference of Regional Advisory Councils agreed to set up a national committee , namely the NCCAE , to replace the role of the DES . |
| 23 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
| 24 | The 13-nation Independent European Programme Group ( IEPG , involving all the European members of NATO except Ireland ) meeting on June 28 , 1989 , in Estoril , Portugal , agreed to set up a joint programme known as Euclid to promote research and development among European defence contractors . |
| 25 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 26 | The two agreed to set up a joint commission examining the issue . |
| 27 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 28 | They agreed to set up a working group on normalizing relations , to meet in New York , headed by Kenneth Quinn , a US deputy assistant secretary of state , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's ambassador to the UN . |
| 29 | The Foreign Ministers of member states of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , meeting in Helsinki in March [ see p. 38841 ] , agreed to set up a peace conference in Minsk comprising 10 CSCE members ( Armenia , Azerbaijan , Czechoslovakia , France , Germany , Italy , Russia , Sweden , Turkey and USA ) and with the participation of a delegation from Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 30 | Defence and foreign ministers of the nine member countries of the Western European Union ( WEU ) , meeting in Bonn , Germany , on June 19 , agreed to set up a joint military force which could be deployed for peacekeeping , humanitarian and other missions , including the deployment of " combat forces in crisis management " , in Europe and elsewhere . |