Example sentences of "a [noun sg] set up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 2 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 3 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 4 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 5 | The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner . |
| 6 | With a spreadsheet set up on a personal computer , this requires very little time to calculate and provides a direct guide to strategies concerned with cost leadership . |
| 7 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 8 | Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class . |
| 9 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
| 10 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 11 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 12 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 13 | Stephen Owen of the Commission of Resources and the Environment , a body set up by the province 's government to reach a consensus on forestry issues , has called for the area to be designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve , covered by the Biodiversity Treaty . |
| 14 | It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute . |
| 15 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 16 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 17 | David Holmes of Dorling Kindersley fielded the accusation of ‘ unfair play ’ : ‘ The DK Family Library is a business set up as a networking operation , along the lines of Tupperware , ’ he said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A few computers allow the programmer to create his own iterated instructions by providing an " iterated execute " or " repeat " instruction , which operates as follows : Execute the ( perhaps modified ) target instruction Update an index register or the execute modification field Conditionally repeat Again the conditional repeat is based on a count set up by the repeat instruction , or on the setting of a flag by the target instruction . |
| 20 | The programme entitled " Socialism , Democracy , Progress " , written by Gorbachev and his aide , Georgii Shakhnazarov , after drafting by a commission set up at the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , unequivocally condemned Stalinism , and committed the party to forming a " controlled market economy " ( including the principle of private ownership ) , and to converting the Soviet Union into a " democratic federation of sovereign republics " , thereby recognizing " the principle of independence of the republican parties included in the CPSU " . |
| 21 | Not far from Digital a firm set up by the Rehabilitation Institute employing 60 people , some of them handicapped , supply packaging to Digital . |
| 22 | A recording set up with a difference . |
| 23 | ‘ And he dreamed , and behold a ladder set up on the earth , and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it . ’ |
| 24 | The experiment in the Morton salt Mine in Ohio is one of a number set up around the world to do just this . |
| 25 | We just need to get a letter set up on the stand alone system . |
| 26 | There was a roadblock set up with no less than three machine-guns . |
| 27 | In each case the property obtained by the creditor is subject to a trust set up by the testator . |
| 28 | So he wrote to George Thurstan , an ex-marine who was running the Drake Fellowship ; this was a scheme set up by the Prince in the wake of the inner-city riots , to give young people from those areas adventure training . |
| 29 | Within two days she had found some information on the Prince 's Trust , which is a scheme set up by the Duke of Cornwall , HRH Prince Charles himself . |
| 30 | A scheme set up by the Benevolent Fund gave him the chance to learn to fly . |