Example sentences of "[prep] setting [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After setting up a bitumen plant and providing earth-moving machinery , the Soviets helped cut a new road east of the old Salang Tunnel . |
| 2 | They went to give emergency help during the height of the oilspill disaster and have only just returned after setting up an animal hospital . |
| 3 | Bishop Lacey — our first Bishop — was desirous of setting up a Guild to oversee the making of vestments and the provision of linen items for the altar . |
| 4 | The costs of setting up a manufacturing subsidiary might be prohibitive or the foreign country might be politically unstable . |
| 5 | Mr Byrne visited Amiens , which is twinned with Darlington , a few months ago to look into the possibility of setting up a link . |
| 6 | October opened auspiciously with Everards looking at the possibility of setting up a brewery in the Falklands . |
| 7 | Public examination systems are constructed on this principle and have another feature too , that of setting up a norm each year , on which each pupil is judged . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you consider any of your colleagues on the committee to be capable of setting up a dynamite booby trap , sir ? ’ |
| 9 | Though the threat to build the airport seems to have receded , there is still talk of setting up a dumping ground for toxic waste close to the marshes . |
| 10 | The ‘ next step ’ of setting up a public authority-the Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members-to assist actively in enforcing such individual rights could have been too much to swallow for the unions . |
| 11 | Difficulties of setting up a system of rewards that is directly linked to performance appraisal and the achievement of objectives . |
| 12 | Here , parents may provide valuable financial assistance to their married children in the early stages of their family life-cycle , when the head of the household is beginning a career , and when the young couples are faced with the initial expenses of setting up a home and providing for young children ( Bell , 1968 ) . |
| 13 | Written with Arabic-speaking students in mind , and designed as a commercial reader with a story line of setting up a company . |
| 14 | An obvious instance of expansion is the admissibility of setting up a trust indirectly , without addressing the trustee . |
| 15 | From that quite informal meeting at the Air Ministry , and others subsequently , the idea of setting up a Target Finding/Marking Force was imperative to the saving of Bomber Command as a vital contribution to winning the war . |
| 16 | In 1970 , the possibility was canvassed of setting up a Language Studies Department having , initially , two strands , English and French . |
| 17 | A journalist who hid in a jail for fifteen hours to expose its lack of security has been accused of setting up a media stunt . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , regional development grants worth as much as 25 per cent of the capital cost of setting up a plant are available in certain departements ( counties ) in the Rhone-Alpes region . |
| 19 | Sometimes , perhaps , instead of setting up a series of difficult and time-consuming experiments , he checks to see whether the answer is already known . |
| 20 | Although the Unity Manifesto had been signed by Pollitt , butt , Gallacher , Tom Mann and Arthur Horner on behalf of the Communists it was essential to stress that there was no intention of setting up a rival to the Labour Party . |
| 21 | I 'm thinking of setting up a kiln here , just for my own amusement . ’ |
| 22 | The next day he started quizzing Tom on the possibility of setting up a pig-farm where the object was not to produce meat , but milk and cheese . |
| 23 | MOTHER Teresa 's dream of setting up a refuge for London 's homeless has come a step nearer — thanks to the generosity of Daily Mirror readers . |
| 24 | It was inspired and created by Father Anthony Mulvey ; he had been influenced by Father Eamonn Casey , later to become Bishop of Galway , who had experience of setting up a housing association for Irish people in London . |
| 25 | Coopers & Lybrand played host recently to a delegation of Russian officials presented with the unenviable task of setting up a market economy from scratch . |
| 26 | Also he 's in the process of setting up a business . |
| 27 | They remain dedicated to the task of setting up a group of integrated schools as a sector of education complementary to the existing system . |
| 28 | Effort of setting up a group |
| 29 | Working with institutions of higher education can also be useful as a means of setting up a project to justify the use of the microcomputer in the school library ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 30 | WWF is also currently funding an appointment of someone to investigate the possibility of setting up a Northern Ireland Wildlife Link , a system currently operating in England and Scotland . |