Example sentences of "[verb] set up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artist has taken fifty round metal boxes , once used for keeping radio sound tapes , and on each has set up two photographs , supported by old film racks ; blurred images from pornographic television films are shown side by side with black and white images from Holocaust archives . |
| 2 | But it may be that the company is producing a range of products and has set up separate units or subsidiaries to exploit each product market . |
| 3 | On the precise matter that he raised regarding Scotland , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has set up working parties to advise on the need for early action on the Cairngorms , Loch Lomond and the Trossachs . |
| 4 | Then there is a real question of municipal power , now that socialist ‘ decentralisation ’ has set up regional councils . |
| 5 | The European Commission has set up definitive measures to stop imports of computer chips from South Korea being dumped within the Community : finance ministers decided on Monday that imports of dynamic RAMs from Korea would either be subject to import duties of 24.7% or to a pricing deal worked out with the three main chip producers , Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , Hyundai Electronics Industries Co Ltd and Goldstar Electron Co Ltd ; anti-dumping duties had been levied at 10.1% ; the Big Three took 25% of the Community in 1990 from just 6% in 1986 . |
| 6 | She taught , pressed for prison reform , and helped set up charitable houses for elderly , epileptic , and incurable women . |
| 7 | This may require additional information to be recorded on requisition forms etc , or involve setting up new registers , all of which will demand extra staff time , and could lead to some resistance . |
| 8 | This project worked with existing community groups in the area , helping to set up new groups and acting as a resource for community action . |
| 9 | The countries hope to set up similar institutes on their own ground , with an exchange of technicians . |
| 10 | About ten months later , in a report to an International Congress at Paris it was stated that the Spanish Medical Aid Committee had helped to set up nineteen hospitals throughout Republican Spain , some front-line hospitals and seventy-two ambulances . |
| 11 | The remainder is used to set up new bureaux or develop existing ones , with grant tapering down by year 3 or 4 . |
| 12 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 13 | Statutory agencies will have to use a judicious mixture of grant and contract to help set up new organisations run by the community for the community , to create the range and choice required by consumers . |
| 14 | On June 30 , however , the delegates voted by a large majority against creating any new national structures of the type favoured by the government : 89 voted in favour of the status quo , compared with 11 in favour of appointing the proposed national body and 10 in favour of a compromise suggestion that Solidarity should develop a " formula of co-operation " with the government which did not entail setting up permanent structures . |
| 15 | Employers who might previously have paid ex gratia pensions to favoured employees began to set up formal schemes arranged through insurance companies ( Rhodes , 1965 , p. 87 ) . |
| 16 | sole practitioners were ‘ generally honest and highly professional and provide a valuable service for the community ’ , but those wishing to set up sole practices should meet strict criteria with regard to their accounting system ; |
| 17 | SoVam Teleport , now part-owned by Cable & Wireless Plc here in London , has established a new packet switching node in Ufa , Bashkirria : the new facility will enable the company to market dedicated communications lines between the city and Moscow , with connections to the rest of the public network ; Ufa is a centre of oil industry enterprises and it is at these customers that SoVam is targeting its new service ; the company also aims to set up new nodes in the cities of Chelyabinsk , Salavat and Sterlitomak in the near future . |
| 18 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 19 | In the last few years , the RMCs have also been used extensively by outside clients , most notably by the MSC 's Training Services Division which has commissioned programmes for unemployed managers , especially those intending to set up small businesses . |
| 20 | It is generally true that if organisations try to set up such functions in-house , they are unlikely to keep and retain the best people ; thus there is always a gulf between the in-house employees and their performance and what can be obtained in the way of services by using external consultants to undertake the job . |
| 21 | She straightened , stretching her neck as far as it would go , meeting his eyes , if not levelly , at least unwaveringly , as he answered , ‘ A romantic go-between is someone who helps set up romantic meetings . |
| 22 | How publicly should emissaries from the national body be encouraged to set up local associations ? |
| 23 | Irish beef processors are being encouraged to set up finishing plants in Britain and on the Continent . |
| 24 | Some Chinese students did set up pro-democracy groups overseas on a very small scale and took some risks in doing so , facing possible arrest and imprisonment on their return to China . |
| 25 | So there is a range of hidden costs of community care which we have to remember when we are trying to set up new services . |
| 26 | The LTTE 's Tamil rivals , the groups which had set up provincial governments under IPKF protection , were destroyed and many thousands fled to Tamil Nadu state in southern India . |
| 27 | During the war , Aziz claimed , Kuwait had advanced into Iraqi territory and had set up military establishments and oil installations . |
| 28 | Some donors have chosen to set up parallel offices to run their own projects , as they regard MOH departments as weak and inefficient . |
| 29 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
| 30 | He wanted to set up seventy-five gatherings a year ! |