Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 2 | What a pity that the members of the Napier Commission which was set up in 1883 to enquire into the conditions of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and Islands were unable to have sittings in Islay ; despite pleas for them to visit the island they finished their tour at Tarbert . |
| 3 | What a pity that the members of the Napier Commission which was set up in 1883 to enquire into the conditions of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and Islands were unable to have sittings in Islay ; despite pleas for them to visit the island they finished their tour at Tarbert . |
| 4 | A working party chaired by Lady Vaizey was set up in 1977 to look into the question of making such payments , but although it produced a paper on the subject , no further action was taken . |
| 5 | The Labour government elected in 1984 was the first to recognize the scale of Maori discontent , and extended the powers of the Waitangi Tribunal which had been set up in 1975 to act as an arbiter of Maori grievances . |
| 6 | This was set up in 1972 to cope with the fact that , in the words of the director of the regional organization' |