Example sentences of "[noun sg] set up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 2 | The Child Poverty Action Group , a pressure group set up in the 1960s , urged governments to deal with this problem by increasing family allowances . |
| 3 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By 1987 seven county-based PPA referral schemes had been established and a branch scheme set up in the eighth county . |
| 7 | All processing and refining of mine output is now carried out in South Africa and its management vested in Matthey Rustenburg Refiners ( MRR ) , a company set up in the 1960's by Johnson Matthey and RPM . |