Example sentences of "set up [prep] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 2 | The SROs may in fact be subject to ‘ regulatory capture ’ , where an initially independent body set up to police a particular form of business is ‘ captured ’ by the very institutions it is trying to regulate , and becomes a lobby or mouthpiece working on behalf of the industry . |
| 3 | The Seehandlung organisation , set up by Frederick the Great in 1772 to promote trade along the Prussian reaches of the Vistula , was expanded and reorganised to seek outlets for Prussian goods in Silesia , India , the West Indies , South America , China and the Balkans . |
| 4 | A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held . |
| 5 | WFTU split under the pressure of the Cold War in 1949 , when the British TUC and the CIO from the United States ( followed by the AFL ) set up in opposition the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) . |