Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] set up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days before they struck , a sensor light set up outside the house was smashed . |
| 2 | Many of those who fled across the Danube became graničari ( frontiersmen ) in the military frontier zone set up by the Habsburgs ; others manned fortresses in Dalmatia , combining defence against the Turks in the interior with piracy in the Adriatic . |
| 3 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 4 | Systematic excavation was begun on 30 July by a team of underwater divers from Stas ( the underwater archaeology team set up by the Italian government in 1986 ) headed by Claudio Mocchegiani Carpano and Roberto Petriaggi , together with the underwater unit of the Naples Carabinieri . |
| 5 | On Feb. 13 , 1989 , President dos Santos dismissed Industry Minister Henrique de Carvalho dos Santos " Onambwe " , responsibility for Industry passing to Domingo das Chagas Simoes Rangel , who had been appointed to the Internal Trade portfolio on Jan. 13 [ see p. 36481 ] , as well as heading a new industrial management commission set up by the President . |
| 6 | The Stock Exchange is party to the central compensation fund set up under the Financial Services Act , in which losses due to fraud or the collapse of an institution of 100 per cent up to £30 000 and 90 per cent of losses up to £20 000 are recompensed , and then nothing after that . |
| 7 | Recoup , a pilot recycling company set up by the plastics industry , was paying local authorities £50–100 a tonne for plastic bottles and was trying to build a market for them . |
| 8 | The Financial Management Unit set up by the Treasury and MPO in order to disseminate useful lessons and good practice , and to bring common problems to the attention of the central departments . |
| 9 | Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday . |
| 10 | Origin and purpose The European Investment Bank ( EIB ) is a European Community institution set up under the Treaty of Rome in 1958 as a source of long-term finance for investment projects . |
| 11 | The reserve was the flagship of Project Tiger , the recovery programme set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1972 . |
| 12 | Those from the Kindertransporte with homes to go to — belonging to relatives , friends or sponsors — or to hostels , did not pause at Dovercourt but went straight to London , to a central distribution point set up by the RCM to the rear of the station concourse . |
| 13 | LIFESPAN identifies its offline media by a character string set up in the configuration file . |
| 14 | More than 100 jobs have also been found through a community employment and enterprise centre set up in the shopping centre and through a residents-run job club . |
| 15 | Tories opposed the new credit system set up in the 1690s not because they objected to this type of economic enterprise , but because the benefits to be accrued from it largely passed them by . |
| 16 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 17 | The pair produced two eggs in their eyrie in Haweswater , Cumbria , but experts fear twitchers may have breached an exclusion zone set up by the RSPB . |
| 18 | This was a newly independent state formed by the Allies around the nucleus of the Polish puppet state set up by the Germans in 1916 . |
| 19 | According to a World Bank report published on Sept. 23 , the administration of the US$1,200 million Environment Fund set up under the auspices of the UN was expected to face severe problems stemming from disagreements centring on the degree to which national governments would assume responsibility for environmental projects such as pollution control . |
| 20 | Sheep farmer Alison Hunter Blair has a lamb which has been orphaned after it 's mother died , now through a special lamb bank set up by the national farmers union she 'll be able to find a new mother for the lamb . |
| 21 | However , the deputy head himself became active as a member of the INSET panel set up by the project , and was involved in the planning and presentation of a number of inservice day-conferences and workshops in the county 's calendar . |
| 22 | The original , although it is hard to believe from the fragile beauty of the copy , represented a boy boxer , Cyniscus of Mantineia , whose feats were commemorated in a bronze statue set up in the sanctuary at Olympia . |
| 23 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
| 24 | There 's this big brass band set up in the middle of the station with these people sitting in chairs with their instruments all silvery and shiny . |
| 25 | Now the company needs an additional £1 million , which its backers the British Technology Group and Prutec , the venture capital fund set up by the Prudential Assurance company , say they will give — but only at the expense of an ambitious programme of research . |
| 26 | The Indemnity Fund set up by the Law Society is not concerned with overseas practices for which no compulsory arrangements of a similar nature have yet been devised . |
| 27 | All important to the reputation of the company is British Standard 5750 , the quality assurance scheme set up by the British Standards Institute and to which Stoddard Carpets Ltd. , were awarded full registration two years ago . |
| 28 | Although the Channel Tunnel Company set up during the 1880s survived the abandonment of the project , the pro-tunnel lobby had little success over the next 40 years despite a rash of Bills in Parliament and an inquiry by the Committee of Imperial defence in 1913 . |
| 29 | Surely one of the summer highlights will be a tour of National Trust sacred sites by Phoebus Cart , a theatre company set up by the Royal Shakespeare Company leading actor Mark Rylance . |
| 30 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |