Example sentences of "[vb past] set [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 , CRL helped to set up a test facility at the University of Cali in Colombia . |
| 2 | Felsted 's record-breaking pair , Michael Martin ( left ) and William Cooper , whose unbroken partnership of 239 helped to set up a crushing victory over Harrow |
| 3 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 4 | Marcos , it is said , tried to set up a foundation last year to launder - sorry , deposit — the funds to benefit Filipinos , minus a 10 per cent cut for his greedy relatives and 10 per cent for the Vatican . |
| 5 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
| 6 | Barney , he had these two sons — tried to set up a song and dance act . |
| 7 | With the professors ' backing , disaffected St Petersburg students tried to set up a " free university " at the beginning of 1862 , but they gave up the attempt after a month when the government arrested a professor for lecturing in a supposedly provocative manner on the upcoming national millennium . |
| 8 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
| 9 | She also helped set up a convalescent home for patients from the East End after the cholera epidemic of 1867 . |
| 10 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 11 | A health visitor who helped set up a therapy centre for sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis has been named as Britain 's most caring person . |
| 12 | As a teenager , he helped set up a cricket club . |
| 13 | Later , during the 1960s , Academician M. Tikhomirov proposed setting up a commission to locate the library , and some of its expeditions were still active as late as the 1970s . |
| 14 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 15 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 16 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 17 | The two agreed to set up a ‘ process ’ or ‘ structure ’ by which the two governments could together study issues such as the future of NATO and the Western European Union , British-French nuclear co-operation and joint positions on disarmament . |
| 18 | They agreed to set up a Supreme Council of British Mosques to consider how British Muslims should respond to Saddam Hussein 's call for a holy war . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 21 | ‘ We originally agreed to set up a group for mothers whose children were being dealt with in a child protection context , ’ explains the counselling project co-ordinator Hazel Hickson . |
| 22 | Instead , the government and insurers agreed to set up a special fund . |
| 23 | At this meeting the delegates agreed to set up a steering committee consisting of members from Germany , Holland , Italy and Great Britain , with John Young as Chairman . |
| 24 | As the DES decided in 1980 to discontinue its approval arrangements for OND by 1982 and for other courses by 1981 , the Association of County Councils and the Standing Conference of Regional Advisory Councils agreed to set up a national committee , namely the NCCAE , to replace the role of the DES . |
| 25 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
| 26 | The 13-nation Independent European Programme Group ( IEPG , involving all the European members of NATO except Ireland ) meeting on June 28 , 1989 , in Estoril , Portugal , agreed to set up a joint programme known as Euclid to promote research and development among European defence contractors . |
| 27 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 28 | The two agreed to set up a joint commission examining the issue . |
| 29 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 30 | 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 . |