Example sentences of "set up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tancock , who operates from Mannington Park in Swindon , refused to say if anyone had ever received loans from North Star , or to say why he had set up Global Finance . |
| 2 | In France Jean-Paul Kauffman 's colleagues were paying a percentage of their salaries towards the campaign , and several colleagues at WTN had set up regular standing orders into our bank account . |
| 3 | Over the past few years , many companies have set up contracted-out money purchase schemes — or COMPS , as they are known for short — which operate on a different principle from final salary schemes . |
| 4 | All the emergency services … and gas and electricity workers … have set up real life situations that youngsters may face . |
| 5 | They are set up each time when the operation is required at run time . |
| 6 | It was set up that way , certainly , but was it set up by him ? ’ |
| 7 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 8 | As yet you probably do not know what Charge Codes you want to use , so just set up one storage directory under Charge Code 0001 , for use by the LIFESPAN Manager , at present . |
| 9 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |
| 10 | United Distillers has set up two distribution networks in South East Asia through joint venture companies : one with Moët Hennessy , called Riche Monde , and the other with Moët Hennessy and Inchcape , called Caldbecks . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Menter Bro Ddyfi has set up new computer courses at the school , which commence next week . |
| 12 | Li said the Qinshan nuclear plant , opened last year , and the Daya Bay plant , due to open this year , have both set up complete waste disposal systems . |
| 13 | Ray has also set up High Rise Aquatics to market plants and accessories . |
| 14 | ‘ By Christ , you 're well set up this year . ’ |
| 15 | The Joint Information Systems Committee ( JISC ) was set up this year by the higher education funding councils ( HEFCs ) as a successor body to the Computer Board and the Information Systems Committee ( ISC ) . |
| 16 | The Delicatessen & Fine Food Association has set up this telephone service to help you track down your nearest supplier of almost any specialist ingredient . |
| 17 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 18 | Bill Rodgers having set up this committee , it now fell to me to decide what to do with their report . |
| 19 | You 've set up this meeting for me and I ca n't thank you enough . |
| 20 | The Economist referred to the device of ‘ calling in a High Court judge to write incredible economic nonsense ’ , but whatever view is taken of the justice or the wisdom of the report which recommended a considerable wage increase and which formed the basis of the settlement , the impression given was that the government had set up this enquiry to produce a report which would enable them to yield to the miners ' claim without total loss of face . |
| 21 | The German-American Academic Council was set up this month on the initiative of Germany to support projects and exchanges in science , including social science , and technology . |
| 22 | A company has set up fair value provisions for the reorganisation costs of a subsidiary it acquired last year . |
| 23 | Retail , which refuses to disclose the terms of the deal , was set up last year with £10m of City capital and is headed by Malcolm Parkinson , the former B & Q managing director . |
| 24 | The ISE Council yesterday considered a progress report from the special committee on the domestic equity market , chaired by Nigel Elwes , which was set up last year to examine stock market procedures in the wake of the October 1987 crash . |
| 25 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 26 | One of the few bright spots at Daimler is DEBIS , the financial-services operation which has turned in a modest profit on sales of DM3.8 billion since being set up last year . |
| 27 | He was appointed director of the council when it was set up last year . |
| 28 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 29 | For the wealthy , there 's the garden of intrigue , a permanent display costing forty thousand pounds which was set up last year by a local nursery.Those with tiny gardens and less money could gain inspiration from the series of patio gardens designed for the show . |
| 30 | It was set up last year at the behest of the Labour leader , John Smith , but has an independent life under Sir Gordon Borrie , former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading . |