Example sentences of "[verb] set up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 2 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 3 | If you actually want to set up the society yourself , find ten little friends , come along , ten people giving the number you need to form a society one pound each for membership , I shall give you all the er relevant data and you can start up your side in whatever it be as long as it does n't contravene union policy on sexism , racism etcetera . |
| 4 | you want to set up the printer . |
| 5 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 6 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 7 | Undaunted by suggestions that some things may simply be beyond quantifying , the MCI has set up the Knowledge and Understanding project to investigate . |
| 8 | It has set up the Highlands and Islands Development Board . |
| 9 | Dave Brown has set up the Canoe Polo Sports Clinic . |
| 10 | Responding to scientific reports from South and North America , Europe and Australia that millions of toads , frogs and salamanders are dying , the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) has set up the Task Force on Dwindling Amphibian Populations . |
| 11 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |
| 12 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 14 | Mr Chettle , who comes originally from St Albans , helped set up the Aspex Gallery , a major artists studio base in Portsmouth . |
| 15 | Right do we want to set up the mouse to display the environment , or what ? |
| 16 | Armenia , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agreed to set up the Assembly " as a consultative institution to discuss matters and consider draft documents of common interest " . |
| 17 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 18 | Volunteers were sought to set up the tables . |
| 19 | An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris . |
| 20 | It was decided to set up the PMIS as part of an " on-line " system ( directly connected to the computer ) using a computer terminal for input and output . |
| 21 | His immediate staff were a Production Designer , responsible both for sets and prop building , and a Technical Manager to oversee setting up the studio equipment . |
| 22 | The latter phrase , used in the 1991 act setting up the agency , enshrines the word " sustainable " in UK legislation for the first time . |
| 23 | The most common failings are to rely too much on words rather than extensively labelled diagrams , to use technical terms and concepts which the user may not understand , to focus on what it is at the expense of what it does and to fail to separate the needs of the operator from the details which are needed to set up the device , to locate faults , to provide remedies and to provide routine maintenance . |
| 24 | The interval between the two sets was the time needed to set up the instrument for the lower illumination passing through the filter , about twenty minutes . |
| 25 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 26 | The money will be used to set up the trail and to produce a waterproof colour guide . |
| 27 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |
| 28 | At his office in the stable block of a former count 's palace in north east Moscow , Grigoriev 's company , Vagrius , has helped set up the Task Force Against Piracy , a legal action fund to combat flagrant breaches of copyright which sees Western books and Russian editions illegally produced and sold . |
| 29 | She 's helped set up the protest group , Mothers Against Murder and Agression . |
| 30 | The company can have between two and 50 shareholders ( people who have given money to help set up the company , and in return take a share of its profits ) . |