Example sentences of "[verb] up a joint [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bulgaria is to set up a joint venture with the Sprint International division of Sprint Corp , Reuter reports from Sofia : Sprint-Bulgaria will build a public packet-switched data network for Bulgarian Telecommunications Co ; Bulgaria has also invited foreign companies to submit tenders for a $230m project to upgrade the present telephone system . |
| 2 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 3 | Members of the council agreed to set up a joint initiative involving all public agencies . |
| 4 | The two companies decided to set up a joint research and development project to find a system which would meet the new standards in a cost-effective way , and Project Alaska was born . |
| 5 | This improvement in relations was reinforced at the biannual Franco-German summit in Paris on April 25-26 , when the two leaders also agreed to set up a joint study on the " future architecture of Europe 's security " . |
| 6 | The conference agreed to set up a joint study group to look at the particularly urgent question of the DipHE , to be followed by a similar study group on the BEd . |
| 7 | National minority rights came into question in January when Romanians , Croats and Slovaks in Hungary began to set up a joint organization which intended to help the government prepare decisions affecting minority rights . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The FBI is keen to set up a joint task force with Scotland Yard to combat the growing number of insurance , investment and banking frauds in the dependencies which cause a great deal of embarrassment to the British Government . |
| 10 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 11 | A communiqué issued at the end of the talks said that " Iran and Iraq and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) have agreed to set up a joint commission to review the resumption of the exchange of prisoners of war " . |
| 12 | The two agreed to set up a joint commission examining the issue . |
| 13 | Being apart all week means you 're doing none of the things young married couples normally do — building up a joint lifestyle , going out , having friends around and generally enjoying yourselves together . |
| 14 | The Presidents of six Amazon Basin states — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana and Surinam — together with representatives of Peru and Venezuela , held a two-day summit meeting in Manaus , Brazil , on Feb. 10-12 to draw up a joint position in advance of the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) in June . |
| 15 | In July 1918 these universities set up a Joint Standing Committee of Convocations , intended to be non-political and non-partisan , the main purpose being the selection , on approved educational grounds , of candidates for the parliamentary constituency . |
| 16 | And the divide between the Catholic and Anglican churches was bridged — at least for investment purposes when the insurance arms of the two churches set up a joint venture , Ecclesiastical Underwriting Management , headed by the aptly named Kevin Cannon . |
| 17 | It has set up a joint venture with Hungary 's state-owned producer , which makes 40% of the country 's cigarettes . |
| 18 | Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals , Japan , and ICI Resins have set up a joint venture for the marketing and production of styrene acrylic and polyester photocopier toner resins . |
| 19 | There are some helpful rationalisations afoot : Mercury , together with 11 other telecomms companies , has recently set up a joint venture , FNA , to provide ‘ unified communications services ’ between the financial centres of the world . |
| 20 | His untiring efforts over a 27-year period include developing services for the mentally handicapped in Cleveland , including setting up a joint unit of Venture Scouts and Ranger Guides . |
| 21 | The agreement included a clause setting up a joint committee to oversee air quality . |
| 22 | And Bechtel is setting up a joint venture with Kiewit that is looking at projects in 15 states and outlays of up to $1 billion . |
| 23 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 24 | Agreement was reached on setting up a joint commission of experts to deal with minority questions and on working towards guaranteeing minority rights . |
| 25 | There were echoes here of 1984 , the year in which the main associations of the book world set up a joint committee to run a vigorous campaign to fight the then Thatcher government 's rumoured intention of levying a positive rate of VAT on books and learned journals . |
| 26 | Morton 's first overseas venture was in the UK in 1964 , when it set up a joint venture in Coventry to distribute the LP polymer . |
| 27 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 28 | On his return to Uralmash from a business course in West Germany in 1988 , Mr Korovin set up a joint venture with an Austrian company to make equipment for the continuous casting of steel . |
| 29 | The company set up a joint venture with Magneti Marelli the Italian firm which has already taken over two big Lucas plants in the Midlands . |
| 30 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |