Example sentences of "[noun sg] set up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help .
2 Two days before they struck , a sensor light set up outside the house was smashed .
3 Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters .
4 Sun users in education and research can access public domain software , shareware , research articles and images via InterNet and SunSite , a new easy-to-use interactive information repository set up with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .
5 It 's the fourth year running that the Tudor Manor is playing host to a mini opera season in the three hundred seater auditorium set up at the side of the house .
6 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 .
7 Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market .
8 A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff .
9 Yesterday , though , the independent committee set up by the Government to look at the admissibility of pre-trial video interviews of abused children called for radical changes .
10 Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class .
11 The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner .
12 Duncan Graham was the first boss of the council set up by the Government to decide what should be taught in schools .
13 Chatichai Choonhaven , the Prime Minister deposed by the military in the February 1991 coup [ see p. 38003 ] , was now allied with the Samakkhi Tham party , which was supported by the National Peace-Keeping Council set up by the military after the coup .
14 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 .
15 It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ .
16 Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards .
17 He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says .
18 Banbury is certainly a planted town set up by the Bishop of Lincoln between 1123 and 1138 .
19 Through the condensation set up by the intake of cooler air into a warm-blooded animal , a dolphin receives a supply of fresh non-salt water when breathing .
20 It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute .
21 Stephen Owen of the Commission of Resources and the Environment , a body set up by the province 's government to reach a consensus on forestry issues , has called for the area to be designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve , covered by the Biodiversity Treaty .
22 Klebeck , 86 , had never faced trial for his many alleged crimes in the Alderney camps because the British government had not released relevant classified documents even to the war crimes inquiry set up by the government in 1988 [ see p. 36190 ] .
23 RENFE , according to one estimate , had seen some forty study commissions by the early 1980s ( Nueva Empresa , no. 193 , 15 October 1983 ) , and a major commission of inquiry set up by the government reported in 1984 ( CEFE 1984 ) .
24 Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair .
25 In the past six months , 65,000 people have joined the Reform of Heisei , a pressure group set up in the wake of the Sagawa Kyubin scandal by Kenichi Ohmae , the Tokyo head of the management consultancy , McKinsey .
26 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 .
27 LIFESPAN identifies its offline media by a character string set up in the configuration file .
28 As one group member said : ‘ What I 'd like to see happening is this room set up with the computer and using it regularly to type up the notes from our meetings . ’
29 That emerged yesterday during a visit to Shetland by Lord Donaldson , who is heading the inquiry into shipping safety set up after the disaster .
30 There was even a Christmas tree set up by the altar .
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