Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] set up " in BNC.
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1 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
2 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
3 | In 1834 he set up on his own in London as a general chemical manufacturer . |
4 | At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting 's Alley , which was near the Royal Exchange . |
5 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
6 | In 1932 she set up a facility at the Settlement Hall in Newport Road , teaching children basic skills , walking , and speech therapy . |
7 | Joe Meek moved to North London and in 1960 he set up his own recording studios above a leather shop , where he produced dozens of hits … |
8 | In January 1986 we set up The Desktop Publishing Company and bought a complete Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system . |
9 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
10 | In 1847 he set up his own practice in Truro and designed the Old Rectory when he was only twenty-four years old . |
11 | In 1961 he set up a working group , in the Ministry , ‘ to study the long term development of roads and traffic in urban areas and their influence on the urban environment ’ ; the leader was Colin Buchanan . |
12 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
13 | He could easily be presented as a modest example of Samuel Smiles 's self-help — the illegitimate son of a farm-servant and a weaver , totally lacking in formal education , who advanced from Oldham textile-worker to foreman in an engineering works , until in 1861 he set up independently as a dentist , dying worth almost £15,000 , which was by no means negligible : a lifelong radical Liberal and temperance advocate . |
14 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
15 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |
16 | In 1989 it set up its Conservation Register , an extensive computerized database listing conservators working in over one hundred different fields whose working practices , studio security , fees and other professional requirements have been carefully vetted by the Unit before inclusion on their files . |
17 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
18 | In January 1857 he set up a " Secret Committee on the Peasant Question " to discuss ways in which the abolition of serfdom might be achieved . |