Example sentences of "set up a [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 2 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 3 | Adenauer in 1955 proceeded to set up a Ministry of Defence and to create a new Bundeswehr , whose first members joined up in November . |
| 4 | In order to evaluate the most effective ways of meeting the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers , we decided to set up a variety of pilot projects — these will be discussed by Ian Baillie in his talk on the Strathclyde development Fund . |
| 5 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 6 | The DHAC originated in the abortive attempt to set up a branch of NICRA in Derry . |
| 7 | As a result of the work of the Working Party , the Council decided to establish a Work Organisation Research Centre at the University of Aston Management Centre , and awarded a grant of £278,371 to set up a programme of research . |
| 8 | Enterprising window dressers dressed up in ski outfits to set up a display of sportswear in this store . |
| 9 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |
| 10 | In that way , the French banks are trying to be Japanese , to set up a community of interest between themselves and their clients . |
| 11 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 12 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
| 13 | Linda describes the details of their daily lives , the problems that arose in trying to set up a network of support that was sufficient , stable and yet not undermining of the women 's growing independence , and the different reactions of Elizabeth and Helen to their new life . |
| 14 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 15 | It seems to me , if a literary critic may be allowed a comment on these linguistic matters , that the function of the first- and second-person pronouns is rather to relate two people , to set up a plane of relationship which includes them and excludes all others . |
| 16 | It is a pretence to set up a model of mother , father and children as the only acceptable form . ’ |
| 17 | Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement . |
| 18 | He 's an expert on the buildings history and if the building is bought up and say , converted to offices , would like one or 2 rooms put by so he can set up a museum of psychiatry . |
| 19 | If my right hon. Friend succeeds in gaining enough support for his efforts , the European Community will set up a framework of support and it will be up to individual countries to decide , within that framework , how they wish to use the funds . |
| 20 | Under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919 the minister may set up a court of enquiry into a trade dispute . |
| 21 | Either House may set up a committee of inquiry into any matter it wishes , as the House of Commons chose to do on the occasion of the Aberfan disaster of 1966 . |
| 22 | Moreover , Noorda must finally set up a line of succession and give us some indication of how Novell ( and Unix ) will function when he bows out . |
| 23 | But when you begin fishing , if it is a swim you have never fished before with a swimfeeder , it is essential that you find out how long it takes to empty so that you can set up a rhythm of casting and feeding . |
| 24 | Language is richly composed of many references which set up a commonality of theme between different parts of text or speech . |
| 25 | Thus Noel and Jose Parry define professionalism as ‘ a strategy for controlling an occupation in which colleagues set up a system of self-government ’ . |
| 26 | They set up a system of hotel coupons ( 1867 ) , through rail tickets , international ship and rail timetables , and guidebooks , and between 1873 and 1874 they introduced the Circular Note , forerunner of the travellers cheque . |
| 27 | You should , you , you 're advised not to jog on tarmac because the surface is hard and jars and so if you do a lot of it can you see and if , particularly if your joints are not equal to it , then you set up a lot of trouble . |
| 28 | Apart from its original holiday retailing company , it has set up a chain of travel agencies , developed a flight training centre in connection with its Orion airline subsidiary , moved into holiday hotel development and even into selling holiday properties abroad . |
| 29 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 30 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |