Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a [adj] party [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Here in the region , the Oxford district health uthority has set up a working party on doctors hours … they 're concerned about the effects on doctors and patients .
2 The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) .
3 Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three .
4 Aware of the need for effective practical techniques of odour control , in June 1971 , the Department of the Environment set up a working party with the following terms of reference : ‘ To examine the problems of unpleasant odours emitted by offensive and selected other trades , and to make recommendations about the best practicable means for their minimisation and suppression ’ .
5 Furthermore , as some of you here know , the diocese of Bath and Wells set up a working party in 1986 to set out our own policy .
6 The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education .
7 The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources .
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