Example sentences of "to set up a working [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to set up a working system for filing and recovering information shows how defective the organization of the Secretary 's office still was at the end of the Tudor period . |
| 2 | Already the opposition has united to set up a working group on immigration , with a view to formulating a new bill . |
| 3 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
| 4 | The US wanted to set up a working group to study these costs , but other nations rejected the proposal . |
| 5 | It made the need for the establishment of some form of centralized and rational planning of public sector higher education even more urgent and , in the short term , it led the DES to set up a working group to overcome the important technical problems which the arbitrary capping of the pool had created . |
| 6 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 7 | Recognizing the need for the development of international law on liability and compensation arising from the transport or disposal of hazardous wastes , the resolution requested UNEP to set up a working group of experts on this issue . |
| 8 | They agreed to set up a working group on normalizing relations , to meet in New York , headed by Kenneth Quinn , a US deputy assistant secretary of state , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's ambassador to the UN . |
| 9 | The Union — resolves to set up a working group to consider which are the most important and most achievable pay issues to campaign on next year . |
| 10 | The meeting agreed to set up a working group on whale-watching but a British proposal to give the IWC a role in monitoring whale-watching and preparing guidelines to minimise disturbance to the animals was opposed by Japan and Norway and their supporters . |
| 11 | They decided at a meeting of the Labour group of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane yesterday to set up a working group to prepare for a referendum . |
| 12 | To set up a working group to look at ways of achieving a reduction of differentials for next year . |
| 13 | to begin working on next year 's pay claim and to set up a working group to consider new strategies for the campaign ; |
| 14 | On Sunday the national executive committee firmly rejected the proposal to set up a working party to study electoral reform . |
| 15 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 16 | What a waste of time , we all know that the county council is the the highway authority and is fully responsible for traffic management , we 're in a minority and to set up a working party is a complete waste of time . . |
| 17 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 18 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |