Example sentences of "[prep] set up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |
| 2 | ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association . |
| 3 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 4 | Pierre Encreve , a professor of linguistics , has been charged with setting up the new foundation , which will serve to fulfill Andre Chastel 's 1983 commitment to found an institute for the history of art and culture , on the lines of London 's Courtauld Institute . |
| 5 | Both InsP 3 and DAG have been implicated in setting up the dorso-ventral axis in Xenopus embryos . |
| 6 | Substitutions played a big part in setting up the amazing finale that produced three goals in the final five minutes when both defences looked wide open . |
| 7 | A major part in setting up the Czartoryski Foundation , and in most of the other similar attempts , has been played by an eminence grise familiar to Western art circles , namely the London art dealer Andrew Ciechanowiecki . |
| 8 | Mr Cossiga is particularly sensitive on one score : his own part , as junior minister of defence , in setting up the secret counter-insurgency network known as Gladio . |
| 9 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 10 | The principal effort to date has been directed to setting up the operational structure , preparing marketing material , and general business development , including joint ventures with partners in industry . |
| 11 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 12 | be appointed with responsibility for setting up the district-wide programme . |
| 13 | Dutta , 28 , told the jury he received £20,000 for setting up the front company of Rasiklal & Sons and providing letterheads and invoices . |
| 14 | The acknowledged annual implementation costs referred to earlier were running at almost double the £220m estimated for setting up the internal market . |
| 15 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 16 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |
| 17 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 18 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |