Example sentences of "set up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 set up that mechanism that you know
2 In the 1960s and 1970s most governments set up economic planning organizations which reflected these objectives .
3 In the Old City men set up small roadside stalls around big red earthenware pots containing jal jeera , a dark , spicy , green liquid which burns the mouth but cools the body : a more primitive yet more effective coolant than anything on offer in the new town .
4 Their approaches differed — they consulted with organizations from the oppressed groups ; they set up new committee structures ; they funded voluntary groups and made space available to them ; they arranged awareness-training for their staff .
5 Some councils set up new industry or employment committees , staffed by their own departments .
6 Then they set up fifteen study groups , each of which was charged with designing a new state for one of the fifteen suggestions .
7 When the novelty of criticism began to wear off we set up rival fringe performances .
8 It reached its peak earlier this week when both Presidents set up rival command structures , forcing officers to choose whom to obey and from whom to risk a charge of mutiny .
9 Car companies set up environmental group
10 So you set up some sort of indent .
11 ‘ If the Conservatives set up this fund , there is bound to be some confusion with ours , ’ says director Christopher Nevile .
12 So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse .
13 and then set up this aluminium plumbing
14 If either the Darwinians on the one hand , or the religious leaders of that time on the other , did make any effort to reconcile the theories of evolution with the doctrines of religion , they made no progress and the two factions became hopelessly opposed , and the religious leaders set up intense opposition to the teachings on evolution .
15 Assemblies met only once a year but set up permanent executive boards .
16 Millers set up local derby final
17 Set up last century by charitable foundations to support local cultural activities and to combat usury , they have become big business .
18 There is also Cortex which we set up last year as a process engineering consultancy with a keen interest in environmental work .
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