Example sentences of "[num] [verb] up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orient then took the lead with goals from Mark Cooper and Andy Jones , both from Simon Livett free kicks , before Paul Cavell made it 5–4 to set up a rousing finale . |
| 2 | Laos Following the award to BGS in August 1990 of a six-month Asian Development Bank consultancy , a BGS-led team comprising a geologist , an exploration geochemist , a bibliographer and a cartographer , together with a mineral economist from British Mining Consultants Limited , worked at the Department of Geology and Mines ( DGM ) , Vientiane , between September 1990 and March 1991 to draw up a new Mineral Exploration and Development Plan for the government of the Lao PDR . |
| 3 | In the Habsburg territories in central Europe , which because of their exposed geographical position and limited economic strength greatly needed an effective and well-controlled foreign policy , the Emperor Joseph I in 1709 set up a new committee of nine officials for this purpose . |
| 4 | One of the committees of the Parliamentary Council established in 1948 to draw up a new constitution was given the task of preparing a new electoral law . |
| 5 | Following a military coup in 1980 legislative and executive powers were assumed by a National Security Council ( NSC ) led by Gen. Kenan Evren , which in October 1981 set up a Consultative Assembly to draft a new constitution which was approved by referendum in November 1982 . |
| 6 | Last year twenty thousand set up a tented shanty town on the site , taking police by surprise and enraging local people . |
| 7 | Scottish campaigns between 1301 and 1304 used up a further sum of around £177,000 . |
| 8 | In the end a narrow majority endorsed the declaration as proposed by radical delegates from West Siberia 's Kuzbass coalfield , who had forced the issue by voting on Oct. 25 to set up a new union whether or not the congress supported them . |
| 9 | The Presidents of six Amazon Basin states — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana and Surinam — together with representatives of Peru and Venezuela , held a two-day summit meeting in Manaus , Brazil , on Feb. 10-12 to draw up a joint position in advance of the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) in June . |
| 10 | Two days later , Mobutu was quoted as saying that the conference would convene on April 29 to draw up a new constitution which , if approved by a referendum , would lead to multiparty politics . |
| 11 | In order to help fund the costs of unification the West German federal government and the Länder ( states ) agreed on May 16 to set up a German Unity Fund to raise DM95,000 million ( US$1.00=DM1.6443 as at May 14 , 1990 ) on the capital markets over the ensuing 4@1/2 years ( half to be raised by federal government and half by the Länder ) . |
| 12 | The DC on May 8 set up a special commission to manage the affairs of its Milan branch . |
| 13 | ‘ When some of these smart Alecs in 1974 put up a venomous plaque to my brother in Soho , outside the Plough tavern in Museum Street , I went over there , in the winter , and tore it down . |
| 14 | A verse from the Sydney Bulletin in 1882 summed up a familiar controversy about how to interpret a phenomenon such as Larrikinism : We must leave the question of the origins of the ‘ Hooligan ’ style where it rests , however , as simply one murky aspect of an otherwise murky affair . |
| 15 | She and Liewer returned to France 7–8 June 1944 to set up a new group of resisters between Limoges and Périgueux . |
| 16 | President Suharto on Nov. 19 set up a seven-person commission to investigate the Dili incident , headed by Chief Justice Jaelani , a retired army general , and comprising officials from the Home Affairs , Foreign and Justice Ministries , and representatives from the Supreme Court , armed forces and parliament . |