Example sentences of "set up a [noun sg] [prep] [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 | This chapter seeks to set up a scheme for language teacher education , a pragmatics of pedagogy , which incorporates these conditions for establishing relevance and provides for the furtherance of proper and profitable relations between theory and practice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 7 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 8 | It would be an exciting and worthwhile challenge , for instance , to set up a centre for medicine with Urdu or French where professionals could receive additional training and which would also could become the focus for expertise and research in that area . |
| 9 | The DHAC originated in the abortive attempt to set up a branch of NICRA in Derry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Want to set up a table in document ? |
| 12 | Enterprising window dressers dressed up in ski outfits to set up a display of sportswear in this store . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In that way , the French banks are trying to be Japanese , to set up a community of interest between themselves and their clients . |
| 15 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is a pretence to set up a model of mother , father and children as the only acceptable form . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919 the minister may set up a court of enquiry into a trade dispute . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Language is richly composed of many references which set up a commonality of theme between different parts of text or speech . |
| 29 | Thus Noel and Jose Parry define professionalism as ‘ a strategy for controlling an occupation in which colleagues set up a system of self-government ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |