Example sentences of "set up [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As time was short we walked briskly for 4 hours , before deciding that we would have to set up camp for the night . |
| 2 | A HAMBLETON businessman is to set up shop outside the area after allegedly being given a rough ride by the district council . |
| 3 | Should both the Clacton and Harwich travel-to-work areas receive assisted area status firms can be given grants to set up shop in the area . |
| 4 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 5 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
| 6 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 7 | Surveying reports on the relevant customary behaviour in 350 separate ‘ societies ’ , Tylor was able to demonstrate that , when the newlyweds set up house with the wife 's kin , avoidance behaviour between the latter and the husband occurred more frequently than could be expected on the basis of mere chance . |
| 8 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 9 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 10 | Joseph Truman , ‘ based on papers now lost ’ , is said to have set up business as a brewer in 1666 , the year of the Great Fire of London . |
| 11 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 12 | With Syrian approval , the captain of the town 's ‘ defence committee ’ had set up office in the telephone exchange . |
| 13 | And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down . |
| 14 | And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down . |
| 15 | If women want to spend their lives with something that is slim , sanitary and sensitive , perhaps they should consider setting up home with a thermometer dipped in Dettol . |
| 16 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If you are staying some while , sir , you must tell it me privately , ’ Mary said , ‘ since I am setting up shop as a connoisseur of grave stories . ’ |
| 18 | Picking up the pieces was no easy task but Connors was one of the first traders to get back on its feet , temporarily setting up shop in a portacabin . |
| 19 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 20 | PEARS : Andrew Pears , son of a Cornish farmer , set up shop as a hairdresser in Soho in 1789 and began developing a more gentle soap than the harsh ones then used . |
| 21 | When Ernest set up shop as a photographer , she had gone to work as his assistant and their friendship blossomed into romance . |
| 22 | He set up shop as a publisher and on 26 August 1594 married Jayne Vrique ; a son , Isaac , was baptized on 19 April 1595 ; three other children , Thomas , Joan , and Alice , figure in his will . |
| 23 | The Mondays , with girlfriends , wives and kids in tow , eventually decided on Blue Wave , Eddy Grant 's studio in Barbados , set up shack in the middle of a sugar plantation miles away from anywhere , and immediately established a mutual rapport and respect with Frantz and Weymouth . |
| 24 | They were the first national employees to receive service awards in Colombia , as it is five years since LASMO set up business in the country . |
| 25 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 26 | Hickman set up practice as a surgeon in Ludlow . |
| 27 | Son of Gifford Tate , the painter , he had been the Garlands ' doctor since , at his father 's death , he had returned to Falmouth and set up practice in the family house . |