Example sentences of "[num] [noun] set [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheffield , too , had such links ( even before reorganization ) formalized in an Industrial Development Advisory Committee , involving representatives of industry , trade unions , central government departments as well as the city council , and in the late 1970s Nottinghamshire set up an economic forum involving similar groups ( Johnson and Cochrane , 1981 , p. 171 ) . |
| 2 | In 1977 UNEP set up a co-ordinating committee to review research and calculate projections for ozone depletion . |
| 3 | Wherever Jews were to be found — whether in the Holy Land or in the far-flung Diaspora — his name had become a household word as one of the select band of zealots whose spirit had never relinquished the hope of one day setting up a Jewish state in Palestine . |
| 4 | In 1887 Davies set up a limited liability company , the Ocean Coal Company , with a nominal capital of £536,000 . |
| 5 | In 1860 Frith set up a photographic company in Reigate to record as many locations in Britain as he could . |
| 6 | The 1983 agreement by eighteen countries to set up a regional preferential trading area ( PTA ) in East and Southern Africa has been little more successful in overcoming three familiar problems . |
| 7 | And the divide between the Catholic and Anglican churches was bridged — at least for investment purposes when the insurance arms of the two churches set up a joint venture , Ecclesiastical Underwriting Management , headed by the aptly named Kevin Cannon . |
| 8 | But just as the Americans looked to be heading to a heavy and humiliating defeat in their first ever game against Germany , they struck back with two goals in seven minutes to set up a tense finish . |