Example sentences of "[vb past] set up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Felsted 's record-breaking pair , Michael Martin ( left ) and William Cooper , whose unbroken partnership of 239 helped to set up a crushing victory over Harrow |
2 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
3 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
4 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
5 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
6 | She also helped set up a convalescent home for patients from the East End after the cholera epidemic of 1867 . |
7 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
8 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
9 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
10 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
11 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) on March 18 obtained a local ceasefire in order to send a mission to Stepanakert , where it planned to set up an operational base . |
12 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
13 | They agreed to set up a working group on normalizing relations , to meet in New York , headed by Kenneth Quinn , a US deputy assistant secretary of state , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's ambassador to the UN . |
14 | The meeting agreed to set up a working group on whale-watching but a British proposal to give the IWC a role in monitoring whale-watching and preparing guidelines to minimise disturbance to the animals was opposed by Japan and Norway and their supporters . |
15 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
16 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
17 | They agreed to set up a Supreme Council of British Mosques to consider how British Muslims should respond to Saddam Hussein 's call for a holy war . |
18 | The two agreed to set up a joint commission examining the issue . |
19 | The conference agreed to set up a joint study group to look at the particularly urgent question of the DipHE , to be followed by a similar study group on the BEd . |
20 | Members of the council agreed to set up a joint initiative involving all public agencies . |
21 | The 13-nation Independent European Programme Group ( IEPG , involving all the European members of NATO except Ireland ) meeting on June 28 , 1989 , in Estoril , Portugal , agreed to set up a joint programme known as Euclid to promote research and development among European defence contractors . |
22 | As the DES decided in 1980 to discontinue its approval arrangements for OND by 1982 and for other courses by 1981 , the Association of County Councils and the Standing Conference of Regional Advisory Councils agreed to set up a national committee , namely the NCCAE , to replace the role of the DES . |
23 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
24 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
25 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
26 | Instead , the government and insurers agreed to set up a special fund . |
27 | They have been exacerbated by rumours that ethnic Germans from Soviet Asia are to be moved into the Kaliningrad region and allowed to set up an autonomous republic there . |
28 | National minority rights came into question in January when Romanians , Croats and Slovaks in Hungary began to set up a joint organization which intended to help the government prepare decisions affecting minority rights . |
29 | The two companies decided to set up a joint research and development project to find a system which would meet the new standards in a cost-effective way , and Project Alaska was born . |
30 | I next decided to set up a complete examination of the social security system . |