Example sentences of "set up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 2 | Set up at the same time as Plowden , with the same terms of reference and some overlap of membership , this report shared Plowden 's philosophy of education , and reached similar general conclusions . |
| 3 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 4 | It was suggested earlier that the agencies set up during the nineteenth century to implement social policies were often ad hoc bodies . |
| 5 | The final major institution was to be the Court of Justice , not to be confused with the European Court of Human Rights set up under the 1950 Convention and based in Strasbourg along with the Council of Europe . |
| 6 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 7 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 8 | Its comments follow a fresh warning by Sir Gordon Borrie , director-general of Fair Trading , that he will take action against long-term beer supply agreements set up between the big brewers and pubs leased to others . |
| 9 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 10 | This Act abolished the negotiating procedures set up in the 1965 Remuneration of Teachers Act , replacing them until 1990 by authorising the Secretary of State to appoint an interim advisory committee and to impose teachers ' pay and conditions . |
| 11 | Capped employees include those who are members of schemes set up after the 1989 Budget or who joined any final salary scheme after 1 June 1989 . |
| 12 | Several prominent figures refused to take the test , including a former state prosecutor Mohammad Moussavi Khoeniha and a former chief justice Ayatollah Abdelkarim Moussavi Ardebili ; among those who did take it , but failed , were Ayatollah Karrubi and Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali ( the head of the Islamic revolutionary courts set up after the 1979 revolution ) . |
| 13 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 14 | In one form — the earliest is usually attributed to the Boston Consulting Group , USA — a 3 × 3 matrix is set up on the two axes as in Figure 2.4 . |
| 15 | I have founded my judgment upon the grounds which I have already expressed , but I do not wish to be understood as thereby negativing the proposition that a defence might be set up on the alternative basis mentioned by Willes J. In my opinion this appeal should be allowed . |
| 16 | Well , the main Control Room is , it 's the centre of all the communications set up on the operational side for the Fire Brigade . |
| 17 | It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows . |
| 18 | The main finishing dais will be set up on the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 19 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 20 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 21 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 22 | As well as crime for corporations and crimes against corporations ( employee theft ) , there are corporations deliberately set up for the sole purpose of committing criminal activity . |
| 23 | However , they were not normally set up for the heavy infantryman 's tactics of prolonged defence before a steady advance , although they were misused in these roles at times . |
| 24 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 25 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 26 | Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut . |
| 27 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 28 | In the Junior Clubman class a three nation battle was set up at the very start between Hillsborough 's Richard Lyons , Dublin 's John Grandon and Glasgow 's Craig Murray . |
| 29 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 30 | Even , I 've never seen it all set up at the same time . |