Example sentences of "set up an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the height of the Anglo Irish agreement , McMurdo severed his links with the Conservative Party and set up an ill-fated Scottish Unionist Party . |
| 2 | The mentality of the time is captured in the statement by Sir Alfred Mond , ICI 's first chairman , when the company set up an agricultural research station : ‘ My ideal is to see , in this as in other chemical manufactures , our great organisation controlling the production and sales of the whole chemical manufacture within the Empire . ’ |
| 3 | In the same year , the Home Secretary set up an internal committee to examine how the right to silence might best be modified in England and Wales . |
| 4 | Local opinion denied their involvement in terrorism , and John Hume , local SDLP MP , persuaded his party to demand an official inquiry , failing which it would withdraw from Stormont and set up an alternative assembly … |
| 5 | Sheffield , too , had such links ( even before reorganization ) formalized in an Industrial Development Advisory Committee , involving representatives of industry , trade unions , central government departments as well as the city council , and in the late 1970s Nottinghamshire set up an economic forum involving similar groups ( Johnson and Cochrane , 1981 , p. 171 ) . |
| 6 | On May 25th the council set up an 11-member tribunal in The Hague . |
| 7 | Jock set up an old aircraft wing with a tin of petrol inside to simulate a fuel tank , which he propped up on some oil drums . |
| 8 | But with only ten minutes remaining yet another slip-up handed Lawther the opportunity to make it 3-2 and set up an exciting finish which should never have been . |
| 9 | Recognizing this , the NFFC set up an independent unit , Group 3 , to finance low-budget films . |
| 10 | The government says it will break up state monopolies , liberalise prices , set up an independent central bank and introduce a single rouble exchange rate . |
| 11 | The Institute set up an independent Financial Reporting Commission last year , which was chaired by Dr Louden Ryan , former governor of the Bank of Ireland , in an attempt to address the expectations gap ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June 1991 , p 14 ) . |
| 12 | Other statutes created new offences , amended penalties , re-organized the structure of the courts , re-classified the types of offence tried in them , defined the powers of the police , and set up an independent prosecution service . |
| 13 | On becoming choirmaster at south Hackney parish church ( 1872–5 ) Hunt gathered the support of leading organists in London and in 1872 set up an independent institution to provide better training for church musicians . |
| 14 | In 1890 Gimson , Detmar Blow , and W. R. Lethaby [ q.v. ] set up an individualistic decorating firm , a brotherhood of craftsmen making and selling their own furniture designs . |
| 15 | Following a statement to Parliament and his Woolwich speech in March and April 1965 , Crosland set up an informal planning group under the Minister of State , Reg Prentice , ‘ to discuss the future pattern of advanced work in the further education system ’ and ‘ the related question of the best arrangements for the government of such colleges ’ . |