Example sentences of "[noun pl] set up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brig Cumming said a key element of the plan was to ‘ picket the people ’ in other words to set up communications lines so that all levels of the factions from top commanders down to local warlords and the actual troops manning barricades were aware of the nature of the convoys and when they were planned to pass through a specific area . |
| 2 | Suitable ward-based projects give the student opportunities to set up traction or to practise orthopaedic procedures . |
| 3 | Attempts to set up party penetration of administration without expertise are ineffective , weakening political co-ordination . |
| 4 | The Nayar case also illustrates my earlier comments on the anthropologists ' use of the term " society " and of their attempts to set up typologies of societies of various kinds . |
| 5 | CHRYSLER , America 's third largest car maker , and Mitsubishi of Japan are discussing plans to set up vehicle manufacturing plants in Europe . |
| 6 | THE GOVERNMENT is ready to abandon its controversial plans to set up registers of land which may be contaminated . |
| 7 | It would also allows local authorities to set up établissements publics for cultural purposes . |
| 8 | Adoption of Resolution 8 will authorise the directors to set up share option schemes for employees outside the UK . |
| 9 | City Comment : Arabs set up tents to spike Midland 's plans |
| 10 | Tax encouragements to foreign companies setting up UK headquarters . |
| 11 | Hazard As well as the obvious hazard to motorists approaching roadworks without warning lights , there is concern the lights could be used by terrorists to set up roadblocks . |
| 12 | The allied forces first moved into northern Iraq on April 17 , following an announcement by Bush on April 16 reversing his administration 's policy of non-intervention and committing US troops to set up encampments in northern Iraq to ensure the safety of Kurdish refugees and co-ordinate relief supplies . |
| 13 | Many more applications to set up windfarms are expected following Government moves to encourage development of renewable energy sources . |
| 14 | The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 , which had placed barriers between commercial and investment banking , would be repealed in order to permit well-capitalized banks to set up affiliates in other sectors of the financial areas . |
| 15 | Sadly , however , when psychologists set up games of Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma between real humans , nearly all players succumb to envy and therefore do relatively poorly in terms of money . |
| 16 | In some cases overseas banks set up branches in London because banking regulations at home made expansion difficult . |
| 17 | All the majors and two of the mini-majors set up production subsidiaries in London . |
| 18 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 19 | Several German banks have in recent years set up capital market units in London to trade deutschmark bonds . |
| 20 | American Technologies set up shop in Warsaw in 1990 , and is best known as one of two local distributors of printers from IBM Corp spin-out Lexmark International Inc . |
| 21 | First , there was the 1960 agreement , to which both Iran and Iraq were parties , whereby several major oil-producing states set up OPEC . |
| 22 | ‘ A while ago , the Federation of Family Support Groups set up advisers at some courts to distribute leaflets and give help to families of prisoners on the spot . |
| 23 | Ice will use clips from '70s blaxploitation movies to set up talking points for his guests . |
| 24 | Police and Scottish National Farmers Union officials in Dumfries and Galloway are urging farmers to set up farm watch schemes in an attempt to combat the attacks . |
| 25 | In view of the clear directive contained in the document ’ Caring for People ’ that the Government expect health providers to set up NHS nursing homes , will the Secretary of State give a commitment that there will be health providers in Wales , and that trusts will establish such homes ? |
| 26 | Many foreign governments give grants and incentives to firms to set up manufacturing bases in their country and their purchasing strategy favours goods made at home . |
| 27 | Organisers set up safety netting well beforehand , then find course setters have changed the lines , so the nets are in the wrong places . |
| 28 | The males set up territories which they will defend vigorously against others of their own kind , and fights to the death have occasionally been witnessed . |
| 29 | It will be the first international tribunal of its kind since the main allied powers set up courts at Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War to try leading Axis war criminals . |
| 30 | As an example , in Cambridge the Regional Authority community officers set up co-operatives in the belief that these were ‘ natural ’ and only lacked resources to succeed . |