Example sentences of "set up [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 2 | It uses experiments to measure its subjects ' behavioural components , and sets up psychologists as the neutral agents of these experiments . |
| 3 | They looked to be all one way traffic as Abingdon 's mid-field dominated the game , setting up chances for the front runners , but the final touch was always missing . |
| 4 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Armed insurgents were reported yesterday to be setting up camps in the hilly terrain of Nagorny Karabakh as tensions between the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan threatened to erupt into full-scale confrontation . |
| 5 | As earnest of its intentions , the new Soviet government established a People 's Commissariat of Nationalities ( Narkomnats ) under Stalin 's direction , and this set up commissions for the main nationalities . |