Example sentences of "[pron] set up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , in 1905 , she set up a British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation , and soon , with the help of volunteer translators , was bringing out an English edition of its French and German Bulletin . |
| 2 | She set up a fundamental review of the way the NHS was financed and organised . |
| 3 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 4 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 5 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |
| 6 | And while she drew , one of the many voices inside her set up a repeated chant , ‘ What should I do ? |
| 7 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There he set up a small photographic portrait business , and made some early forays into recording ethnic ‘ types ’ and customs . |
| 10 | Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc . |
| 11 | Before he set up a special fund for its upkeep it looked like this . |
| 12 | He set up a select committee with the job of trying to devise a political settlement to the problem of Tamil separatism ; but it got nowhere . |
| 13 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 14 | After leaving university he set up a roadying business on the government 's Enterprise Allowance Scheme . |
| 15 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
| 16 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 17 | The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now there is a waiting list of would-be residents for vacancies in existing houses or in new ones , and parents in Providence , Rhode Island , have asked the Wizanskys to help them set up a similar scheme . |