Example sentences of "possibility [prep] set up " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period both John Leacock and Francis Newton were learning about the wine trade and exploring the possibilities of setting up their own businesses . |
| 2 | • the possibility of setting up shared arrangements through personal contacts ( always worth giving me a call , I can be a communications link ) |
| 3 | When potential investors , and more particularly their banks , look at the possibility of setting up in a district , they invariably inquire about the water supply and the standards and controls of effluents and sewerage systems . |
| 4 | October opened auspiciously with Everards looking at the possibility of setting up a brewery in the Falklands . |
| 5 | A PUBLIC meeting is due to be staged at The Institute , Bocking End , Braintree , to look into the possibility of setting up a local voluntary branch of the British Epilepsy Association . |
| 6 | The authorities in Beijing realised that ‘ many college students … suffered serious mental problems because of loneliness or anxiety over their studies or love lives ’ ( CD 23. 2. 1988 ) and several major institutions were talking of the possibility of setting up advisory bodies for students with emotional problems , but few actually existed . |
| 7 | The feeling of disquiet about the practices and methods of some headhunting firms in terms of ethics , reliability , quality of work and total professionalism is such that the possibility of setting up an official self-regulatory association ought to be investigated . |
| 8 | The next day he started quizzing Tom on the possibility of setting up a pig-farm where the object was not to produce meat , but milk and cheese . |
| 9 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 10 | As a result of a request from the project to a local College of Further Education for someone to provide an ‘ O ’ level class for mothers involved in a pre-school play-group , discussions took place about the possibility of setting up an educational project to complement and support the work of the community action project . |
| 11 | Ms Dickinson also reported that discussions were currently taking place with various bodies , including the Arts Council , to investigate the possibility of setting up a National Children 's Book Council . |
| 12 | In view of this irksome journey to Keswick , not surprisingly , regard was given to the possibility of setting up smelt houses at Coniston : " … if the Mynes hereafter should hereafter prove so rich as to countervale the charges of erecting any worke houses , there is more there about but water sufficient to make some competent buildings and good store both a wood & peets at more easy rates than at Keswick if the said wood may be preserved for those uses … " |
| 13 | You were going to contact someone in ADSW ( I regret I forget the name ) with regard to the possibility of setting up some form of Communications Group representing all Departments in Scotland that would meet perhaps every quarter or half year . |
| 14 | The terms of reference of the Northern Ireland Panel were to commission a programme of research on Northern Ireland within a budget of £350,000 ( 1980 Survey Prices ) ; to consider how the social science research capacity for work on this area , particularly within Northern Ireland , might be enhanced in the commission of that programme ; to commission a register of recent and current research on Northern Ireland ; to liaise with the Northern Ireland Office and other relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant researchers in Great Britain and other countries with a view to the possibility of setting up comparative studies ; and to advise researchers in Northern Ireland , who wish to seek finance from the ESRC general research funds or from other agencies . |
| 15 | The objective of this pilot was to explore the possibility of setting up Anglo-French comparative studies on the involvement of the users of public services in their planning and delivery . |
| 16 | WWF is also currently funding an appointment of someone to investigate the possibility of setting up a Northern Ireland Wildlife Link , a system currently operating in England and Scotland . |
| 17 | Mr Byrne visited Amiens , which is twinned with Darlington , a few months ago to look into the possibility of setting up a link . |