Example sentences of "[num] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | She and Liewer returned to France 7–8 June 1944 to set up a new group of resisters between Limoges and Périgueux . |