Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [noun] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 2 | We 're going to set up a safari park in the back garden and cream teans on the lawn |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Vietnam approved the opening of a Thai consulate-general in Ho Chi Minh City and authorized a Thai bank to set up a branch office in Vietnam . |
| 5 | I am hoping to set up a Koi pool in a large shed . |
| 6 | In 1967 , Bill and his wife Pam , sold everything including his house and insurance policies to set up a weaving factory in Cheshire which he called Mercia Weavers . |
| 7 | America , Russia , and three West European allies announced plans to defend Muslim ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia , to set up a war-crimes tribunal in The Hague ( this was then approved by the United Nations ) , and to prevent the conflict spreading into neighbouring countries . |
| 8 | YMCA home for Darlington youngsters A £1m. scheme to set up a YMCA home in Darlington town centre was unveiled yesterday . |
| 9 | Immediately he joined the group of hard , inflexible German communists the Soviet Union had sent to set up a puppet government in the sector of Germany they occupied . |
| 10 | After a contentious and abortive attempt to set up a population register in 1753 , a Bill for a Census was finally passed without fuss in 1800 ( Glass 1973 ) . |
| 11 | THE LATEST application to set up an NHS Trust in Cleveland was yesterday described as ‘ a headlong rush ’ towards a more divided and more fragmented health service in the county . |
| 12 | They 're very wide ranging , and if er , Chair , if members would , would just like to look down at the list of er , options , without going through er , each one individually , but they do range from er , work with er former cottage hospitals , er , front room day care , the further development of home care cooperatives , work er , for people who er , have spinal injuries , who have intake , and er , an interpreter service for , for people who have a hearing loss , and particularly er , helping er , the Shropshire Disability Consortium to set up an interpreting service in the county . |
| 13 | I have also announced that , subject to the agreement of the European Commission , the Government intend to set up an enterprise zone in north Lanarkshire . |
| 14 | King demonstrated for me how easy it was to knock up a backing track in his home studio and then erase it again at the touch of a button . |
| 15 | It , therefore , has two schemes that provide for longer terms funding for particular departments to build up a research programme in a particular area : there are now 150 of these groups at German universities . |
| 16 | Shortly after Edward Heath became prime minister in 1970 , the United Kingdom government began to build up an intelligence system in Ulster independent of the RUC . |
| 17 | The crash mayhem occurred after an incident at about 11am yesterday in which a man in his 20s allegedly tried to hold up a post office in Thelwall , Warrington . |
| 18 | The crash mayhem occurred following an incident at about 11am yesterday in which a man in his 20s allegedly tried to hold up a post office in Thelwall , Warrington . |
| 19 | Romanians would be given the chance to take up an ownership stake in a POF — a kind of embryonic mutual fund — by registering the privatization vouchers which were to be issued to all eligible citizens . |
| 20 | A number of European countries are dependent on migrants from poorer European or Third World nations to make up a labour shortage in certain industries . |
| 21 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |