Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] set up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some miners used these payments to try and set up small businesses or farms . |
| 2 | In the past year , five electronics firms have either expanded or set up new factories in Glenrothes , creating extra work for a couple of hundred people . |
| 3 | finding ways to acquire and set up sustainable and free media institutions , and requesting , as a right , allocation of adequate air time on government controlled radio and television media . |
| 4 | Termites and ants do it seasonally when the time comes for them to mate , disperse and set up new colonies . |
| 5 | In general there was concern to protect the security of their own providers in the first year , to try to sort out the information base for contracting and setting up appropriate systems . |
| 6 | There may.be a need to decentralize and set up semi-autonomous subsidiaries or affiliates . |
| 7 | The aim is to mobilise academic communities in the Third World to help create and set up small-scale chemical industries . |
| 8 | Typically such a group starts out as a married couple ; the couple acquire children ; the children grow up , marry and set up nuclear households of their own ; the original household declines in size and is finally wiped out by death . |
| 9 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 10 | In practice , the best combination of instruments for a particular procedure is largely a matter of trial and error but once a simple technique , such as the two-instrument injection method , has been mastered the principles of making and setting up extra instruments will be self-evident . |