Example sentences of "set up [prep] [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first stocking frame in the county was set up at Hinckley in 1640 by William Iliffe , and the town has prospered on hosiery manufacturing ever since . |
| 2 | This body had been set up by Bismarck in 1886 , when it was estimated that if the Ostflucht continued , 3 million Germans would have left their homes in the Prussian east by the start of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | Yet Tory directors of the Old East India Company and the Royal African Company continued to outnumber Whigs directors by two to one during this same period , and Tories rushed to invest in the South Sea Bubble Company , set up by Harley in 1711 . |
| 4 | A report by the Resource Assessment Commission ( RAC ) set up by Hawke in 1983 to examine all natural resources disputes , is due to be published just after the " resource security " legislation is enacted . |
| 5 | The same author is of the opinion that it is much more likely that lateral shear is set up by differences in frictional drag on the wind between the sand of the dunes and the firm floors of the swales between . |
| 6 | In France a more elaborate and complex coercive apparatus existed than anywhere else in Western Europe — the system of classement set up by Colbert in 1668–73 . |
| 7 | The Académie Française , that illustrious guardian of the French language , set up by Richelieu in 1635 , last week in effect buried the very reform for which it had voted unanimously nine months earlier . |
| 8 | The sole legal political party , the National Union for Independence and the Revolution ( Union nationale pour l'independance et la revolution-UNIR ) , was set up by Habre in 1984 ; in line with Habre 's " national reconciliation " policy , several former opponents of his regime were brought into the UNIR central committee when the membership of this body was expanded from 80 to 120 at the second UNIR national congress on Nov. 23-26 , 1988 . |
| 9 | Ludwig first proposed to the then Soviet authorities that a Museum of Modern Art should be set up in Moscow in 1987 . |
| 10 | A public clepsydra was set up in Rome in 158 BC by Scipio Nasica . |
| 11 | In 1962 , the Institute of Directors ( IOD ) established a Retirement Advisory Bureau ; and the first private retirement consultancy was set up in London in 1965 ( IPM 1965 ) . |
| 12 | In Spain the Archive of the Indies , which had great importance for some aspects of foreign policy , was set up in Seville in 1781 . |
| 13 | In addition , among several projects for livestock improvement and marketing promoted by the HIDB 's Livestock Improvement Working Party , a lamb marketing scheme was set up in Lewis in 1978 for the transport of store lambs to the mainland and their sale at auction . |
| 14 | Timex was set up in Dundee in 1946 . |
| 15 | A legation was set up in Berlin in 1837 and another in St Petersburg twenty years later . |
| 16 | When the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution expired in April 1990 , the former bicameral parliament set up at independence in 1980 was replaced by a new single-chamber parliament , the House of Assembly , with 150 members ( 120 elective , 10 traditional chiefs , eight provincial governors appointed by the President and 12 other presidential appointees ) . |
| 17 | On a different level the academy established at Woolwich in 1741 , the great engineering school set up at Mézières in 1748 , the combined artillery and engineer school created in Russia in 1756 , and a number of similar establishments , provided the armies of Europe with a greater fund of technical knowledge than they had hitherto possessed . |
| 18 | Unlike Blackburn , I have actually been a member of just such a ‘ new left grouping ’ , the ‘ Alternative 86 ’ Alliance ( of greens and reds ) set up in Paris in 1986 with just such an anti-sectarian aim in mind . |
| 19 | The best-known example of this , and probably the most ambitious , was the political academy set up in Paris in 1712 by the Marquis de Torcy . |
| 20 | The main speaker will be Cefin Campbell , director of Menter Cwm Gwendraeth , set up in Dyfed in 1989 . |
| 21 | The Accademia Reale set up in Turin in 1677 , the Noble Cadet Corps established in Saint Petersburg in 1731 , the Ecole Royale Militaire which came into existence in Paris in 1751 , the military academies established at Wiener-Neustadt in 1752 and Zamora in 1790 , were all essentially intended to prepare young nobles for a military career . |
| 22 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |