Example sentences of "set up [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A lot of people say that you should n't hack young horses out on their own for months , if at all , but I 've always preferred the theory that if horses do n't learn to go out alone from the start you set up problems for later on .
2 Sadly , however , when psychologists set up games of Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma between real humans , nearly all players succumb to envy and therefore do relatively poorly in terms of money .
3 It will be the first international tribunal of its kind since the main allied powers set up courts at Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War to try leading Axis war criminals .
4 ‘ My prime concern was to get an overview of the main environmental concerns we would face if we set up operations in the area , ’ he explained .
5 In addition , it defined the responsibilities and rights of parents ; established the Scottish Examination Board to conduct Scottish Certificate of Education ( SCE ) examinations ; set up committees for negotiating teachers ' pay settlements , laying down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached ; and made provision for children with special educational needs .
6 We set up experiments on purified lymphocytes in test tubes to see if nutrients available on one side of a filter would provoke lymphocytes on the other side to wriggle their way through the membrane in that direction .
7 ‘ A while ago , the Federation of Family Support Groups set up advisers at some courts to distribute leaflets and give help to families of prisoners on the spot .
8 previous intercourse may have in some way altered her — set up antibodies of an unknown kind .
9 They set up diversions at Quy and Six Mile Bottom , East Cambridgeshire council helped clear grain and Suffolk police aided traffic filtering on the westbound side .
10 Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) .
11 Yesterday set up conditions for Milky Way , he wrote .
12 In some cases overseas banks set up branches in London because banking regulations at home made expansion difficult .
13 On May 3rd , in an imaginative charade played out before invited cameramen , a group of settlers dressed as ‘ PLO Police ’ set up roadblocks outside Jerusalem and pretended to stop and harass Israeli drivers .
14 Set up roadblocks on King Creole and Roustabout .
15 Set up needles as diagram 1 .
16 which set up heavings in the audience
17 More than 2,000 ‘ New Age ’ travellers set up camps in Romsey and Otterbourne .
18 The answer probably lies in the way so called principles set up expectations for the future .
19 In Knin , residents set up barricades on all approach roads to prevent Croat police arriving to stop the referendum , and local reservists carrying firearms ( some stolen from the town 's police station ) patrolled the streets .
20 Thus many nurse educators now set up simulations in the nurse education centre or the ward which allow direct experience of practical nursing skills .
21 Set up situations in which there is a larger place within which the small group work takes place : a castle , for example , within which there are various small groups , each involved in different activities — cooking , cleaning armour , building new fortifications , growing food , etc .
22 As an example , in Cambridge the Regional Authority community officers set up co-operatives in the belief that these were ‘ natural ’ and only lacked resources to succeed .
23 So — you listen in silence ; and you casework them ; and you set up case-conferences about them ; and you refer them to other agencies ; and you work up your notes on case-handling for the journals . ’
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