Example sentences of "set up in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 2 | If the source of the sound is standing on a solid object , like a radio on a table , or a washing machine on a floor , the vibrations will be set up in the solid object , and will travel along it , carrying the noise through to the next room , and even to the next house . |
| 3 | A full-time pressure group is likely to be set up in the new year . |
| 4 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 5 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 6 | Other areas of the establishment were infiltrated by fascists , and groups were set up in the Civil Service and in several educational centres and public schools , including the Universities of London and Birmingham , Stowe School , and Winchester , Beaumont and Worksop Colleges . |
| 7 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 8 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 9 | Fig. 126 shows the pediment as it was set up in the old museum , an arrangement that is certainly wrong . |
| 10 | Canada 's first grizzly bear reserve is to be set up in the Khutzeymateen area of British Columbia ( BC ) ; logging and hunting will be banned in the reserve . |
| 11 | Petitions were fastened to a statue of Julius Caesar set up in the Roman Forum , and appeals for justice were made to statues of emperors in later antiquity . |
| 12 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |