Example sentences of "[prep] set up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 2 | The terms of reference of the Northern Ireland Panel were to commission a programme of research on Northern Ireland within a budget of £350,000 ( 1980 Survey Prices ) ; to consider how the social science research capacity for work on this area , particularly within Northern Ireland , might be enhanced in the commission of that programme ; to commission a register of recent and current research on Northern Ireland ; to liaise with the Northern Ireland Office and other relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant researchers in Great Britain and other countries with a view to the possibility of setting up comparative studies ; and to advise researchers in Northern Ireland , who wish to seek finance from the ESRC general research funds or from other agencies . |
| 3 | ‘ One advantage is that it can be used indoors at the bigger exhibition centres , thus saving the time and expense of setting up individual exhibitions . ’ |
| 4 | Those seeking a central role for the state will doubtless query the advantages of setting up friendly societies competing for members , when a universal service is provided by the state . |
| 5 | The authorities in Beijing realised that ‘ many college students … suffered serious mental problems because of loneliness or anxiety over their studies or love lives ’ ( CD 23. 2. 1988 ) and several major institutions were talking of the possibility of setting up advisory bodies for students with emotional problems , but few actually existed . |
| 6 | His officials have concluded that the consultants under-estimated the cost of setting up large councils and over-estimated the cost of smaller ones . |
| 7 | • the possibility of setting up shared arrangements through personal contacts ( always worth giving me a call , I can be a communications link ) |
| 8 | The official purpose of setting up these institutions was to meet the rapidly growing demand for higher education within further education without prejudicing opportunities for students following non-advanced courses and to make more rational and effective use of the resources available . |
| 9 | One advantage of setting up these centres is that they may help a two-way flow of ideas for efficient technology , possibly serving as a model for changes to Western society . |
| 10 | They may be called upon to set up in-store displays and other promotions for wholesalers and retailers . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Barnard , who lost his royalty rights to this particular version of the program , wasted no time in setting up Ace Microsystems . |
| 12 | Only in the later 1820s is there clear evidence not only of the pursuit of mass public meetings , as at Liverpool in April 1828 , but collaboration in setting up similar meetings in other major centres . |
| 13 | THE BACKERS of an unusual operation to recover tin From mud on the seabed off Cornwall are interested in setting up similar ventures elsewhere . |
| 14 | Farmers are also being given access to grant aid to help in setting up extra activities to supplement their farming income . |
| 15 | A decision by a customer to change a source of supply usually involves substantial fixed costs in setting up new systems of distribution and servicing which can not be immediately written off against lower supply prices . |
| 16 | Some staff involved in setting up new schedules for BBC Scotland raise another concern . |
| 17 | It will then be so interested in setting up new territories that it will hardly notice the newcomer . |
| 18 | From quite an early age , his mother told me , John 's interest in theatrical things , and specifically in ballet , manifested itself in setting up cardboard boxes as stages , with pipe cleaners for dancers . |
| 19 | Contingent economic agreements provided for a repeal of the US ban on the import of Soviet gold coins , the lifting of restrictions on Soviet borrowing from the US government 's Export-Import Bank ( which was expected to stimulate US companies ' interest in setting up joint ventures in the Soviet Union ) , and payment by the Soviet Union of a debt of US$674,000,000 owed for supplies furnished under the Lend-Lease programme during the Second World War . |
| 20 | Other specific provision includes an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) initiative which seeks to help unwaged individuals from ethnic minorities to look at the skills involved in setting up small businesses or entering self-employment . |
| 21 | In setting up certain members as visible examples of what is proscribed , by attributing forbidden characteristics to them , they serve as images of disorder and evil . |
| 22 | In setting up big rallies in Berlin 's Olympic Stadium in 1981 , we had two committee members in London ( my wife Marlies and me ) , two in Berlin and two in the United States ( living in Virginia Beach and Los Angeles ) . |
| 23 | 6.7 Practical considerations in setting up direct files |
| 24 | However , the complications involved in setting up micro-linked experiments are such that they should only be used when the educational profit is clear . |
| 25 | A £100,980 project to train people in setting up co-operative businesses , which had been expected to secure £45,441 . |
| 26 | I was once involved in setting up ten Crusades simultaneously in Australia and New Zealand for Billy Graham . |
| 27 | He rejected the argument that the defendants had done something more by refraining from setting up certain answers to the claim permitted by the Dubai law ; as a matter of policy it was never their intention to do so and ‘ It is no consideration to refrain from a course of action which it was never intended to pursue ; see Cook v. Wright ( 1861 ) 1 B. & ss. 559 , 589 , ( above , p. 214 ) . ’ |
| 28 | I am in favour of that , but that is different from setting up international agencies whose legislation and ideas may have devastating effects on industries in western countries while leaving eastern countries to carry on processes over which the rest of us have no control . |
| 29 | Touche Ross reckoned that the extra costs resulting from setting up 51 councils would be £58 million but the figure could be closer to £184 million . |
| 30 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |