Example sentences of "set up [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They must have been sick and tired of my harping about gay rights , but by the time I had decided to move to London in order to set up home with the man of my dreams , my workmates organized a leaving party which was a touching celebration of the relationship between Keith and myself .
2 Zambia had not seen Alix for months , ever since she 'd set up home with the kid with prosthetic limbs who claimed his disfigurement was due to a variety of fantasies , all of which were subject to detail change , and none of which ever sounded convincing .
3 At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ .
4 Parents tried to help their children set up home with the aid of a ‘ marriage portion ’ , but most couples had to rely mainly on their own savings .
5 Many set up home across the south , beginning lives again from scratch .
6 The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager .
7 A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state .
8 The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes .
9 People with learning disabilities who need residential care in Bassetlaw can go to one of four staffed homes which were set up partly by the health authority and are run by the Mencap Homes Foundation .
10 I have found that employers who are registered with the CITB feel that it is unfair if other companies which have set up just down the road do not appear to be on the board 's records .
11 The scheme was set up just after the war in order to ensure state-sponsorship of the arts .
12 The incendiary charges Manolo 's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule .
13 As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University .
14 Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive .
15 Some of that has to do with the guitar — we need material which is set up more for the guitar . ’
16 Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation .
17 Mr Harris said MPL was set up specifically for the contract .
18 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 .
19 ‘ As you saw , I 've got my tent set up now on the island .
20 Within the PC environment there are at least four common resolutions plus dozens of hybrids which mean that the fonts have to be set up correctly for the display .
21 Setting up independently in the city c .1820 , he developed a successful practice both in Bath itself and in the neighbouring areas of Somerset and Wiltshire .
22 For this purpose the investigators are using the UK Family Expenditure Survey pooled over the years 1970 to 1985 set up jointly with the Institute for Fiscal Studies .
23 Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial .
24 Eventually , a central department set up jointly by the refugee committees helped to alleviate major problems like the treatment of refugees as Nazis , refugees and Nazis being kept in close proximity , inadequate accommodation , lack of adequate medical care and the separation of families .
25 Gloag moved to Glasgow where , with an unmarried sister , he set up home in the university .
26 Pupils would then lob ping-pong balls in his direction and he would swing his tremendous member with the aim of knocking the balls into a waste-bin set up especially for the occasion .
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