Example sentences of "[pron] set up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I set up a great screaming to attract his attention . |
2 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
3 | Obviously , an employee is free to apply for another position even with a rival of his present employer , or to find premises in which to set up a future business so long as in doing so he is not in breach of any valid express term in his employment contract : see Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 . |
4 | This control was extended in the Securities Exchange Act ( 1934 ) , which set up a new regulatory body , the Securities Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
5 | It was a hundred almost of the grand stature of that which set up the historic victory here over West Indies a year ago , even if it was reached with a thick edge . |
6 | The Charters agreed by the Allied Powers which set up the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo and the judgments of those Tribunals made it clear that everyone , from the lowest private soldier to the highest general and statesman is required to comply with the humanitarian spirit and the generally accepted principles of the laws of war . |
7 | The 1984 PACE Act , the 1987 Criminal Justice Act ( which set up the Serious Fraud Office ) and the Criminal Justice Act of 1988 all contained measures which strengthened legal powers to investigate fraud . |
8 | J. T. Abbott , the Divisional Organiser , resigned from the Party and formed a Unity Committee which set up the Independent Socialist Party in May 1934 . |
9 | God himself sets up a new Jerusalem , and a Messiah-like figure appears at the end , " the lamb which became a great animal and had great black horns on its head " . |
10 | Trying out various ideas they eventually settled on the use of a Ring Modulator , which sets up a low frequency hum breaking up speech patterns into juddery , intermittent tones . |
11 | At the other end of the rod is a transducer which sets up a controlled vibration within the sapphire . |
12 | This allows you to set up a different sound by altering the mid emphasis , coupled with selectable additional boost which can then be triggered by either the front panel ‘ enable ’ switch or via a footswitch . |
13 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
14 | ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me . |
15 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She set up a fundamental review of the way the NHS was financed and organised . |
18 | But it did n't stop him bumping into her every five minutes as she set up the slithering plastic tent , the heaters . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
21 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
22 | Nkumbula 's lack of vigour in attacking the Federation , once established , and in supporting participation in the elections for the Legislative Council in 1958 led to the breakaway from the ANC of Kaunda , Simon Kapwepwe and others who set up the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) in 1959 . |
23 | His father was a French army officer who set up the Moroccan secret service for the king . |
24 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
25 | We set up a Small Self-Administered Scheme with a £50,000 contribution which cut our tax bill by £12,500 , bought the machinery with a £25,000 from the pension fund and the loan repayments go back into our fund to increase our pensions . |
26 | Said Len Brealey : ‘ The plain facts are that after Mr Woolhouse failed to reach payment in an original contract we set up a new agreement . |
27 | Following the very worthwhile discussion at the seminar we set up a Working Party to explore the main issues of concern and to suggest practical guidelines and recommendations for implementation . |
28 | The likeliest place for the specks to get into the product was in the ‘ Fluon ’ finishing Room so we set up a multi-disciplinary CAT of operators , supervisors , QC , QA and maintenance personnel headed by Finishing Room manager Jim Fairhurst . |
29 | Maybe if we set up a few committees , something will happen . ’ |
30 | We set up a national network of consumer advice centres : the Government closed them down . |