Example sentences of "[conj] set up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radical change in Soviet policy was epitomised when Western investors were warmly invited to buy into state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ) or to set up new ventures , all with the ability freely to repatriate their profits . |
| 2 | He admitted taking heroin with one employee after work but denied introducing him to drugs or setting up any deals . |
| 3 | For Martin 's goblin never let him rest unless he was at work fetching honey , or setting up more hives , or buying and selling , making himself richer and richer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While Gainsborough was becoming enfeebled , nothing was being done outside Ealing and Independent Producers to bring on talent or set up new centres of production strength . |
| 6 | Derrida himself , therefore , does not in any sense abjure history ( or totality ) but rather attempts to reinscribe it by writing histories that set up supplementary figures whose logic simultaneously invokes and works against historical totalities . |
| 7 | A pool is also a focus of attention and you can use plants with contrasting flower and foliage that set up interesting patterns in their own right . |
| 8 | Talking in small groups about anything without the supervising presence of a teacher is educational because it is heuristic : it helps children to set up possibilities , and to knock them down , and to set up new ones . |
| 9 | The form of work organisation adopted by management in the Durham coalfield , at first , was to formally separate the three major production processes of preparation , coal-getting , and advancing ( the props , conveyors , etc. ) and to set up distinct groups , each working a whole shift , to perform each process . |
| 10 | Consequently , it is prohibited to announce separate recruitment and to set up separate lists of successful candidates according to sex as well as to hire from the list of successful candidates of one sex without taking into consideration the higher marks of successful candidates of the other sex . |
| 11 | It is the responsibility of the offline manager to log on to LIFESPAN and to set up various parameters for the offline run . |
| 12 | Some miners used these payments to try and set up small businesses or farms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrats intend to concentrate on the prevention of crime by putting more policemen on the beat and setting up special committees to discuss law and order . |
| 16 | Yvonne Simpson , honorary secretary of the BDA 's Darlington branch , said many hospitals had now gone beyond special staff and set up diabetic units staffed by consultants . |
| 17 | Users can be forced to change their passwords at set intervals , and you can examine an audit trail of a user 's previous passwords , and set up temporary accounts . |
| 18 | He settled into an export-import office in Bush House in the Strand , and set up parallel networks of secret intelligence agents to cover the penetrated areas , using the codename Z and avoiding the use of wireless . |
| 19 | Termites and ants do it seasonally when the time comes for them to mate , disperse and set up new colonies . |
| 20 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 21 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 22 | Tumilty , who was anxiously awaiting news of today 's Harp Senior League decider between Bann and Holywood , scored one of the goals and set up two others as George Blackwood 's squad moved to the top of the table overnight . |
| 23 | In 1967–68 , the Council 's Training Panel looked at the problems and set up two sub-committees to be concerned with the practical training element of sandwich courses in arts and social studies , and in science and technology . |
| 24 | From the tenth and eleventh centuries , as the church established itself in northern Spain , the French seized the opportunity and set up monastic centres in the region under the Cluniac Order . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | BETWEEN rounds , two a day at that period , Cotton and Toots would stroll to the car park where the chauffeur unpacked the Fortnum and Mason hamper from the back of the hired Rolls and set up folding chairs and table for an al fresco repast of caviar and champagne . |
| 27 | If we believe the nature of our industry is likely to change , then it behoves us to experiment , and set up different ways of running things to see whether such approaches are more successful than the traditional ways of doing business . |
| 28 | Instead they should restrict access to plants , control contracts and set up local industries to capitalise on biodiversity . |
| 29 | There may.be a need to decentralize and set up semi-autonomous subsidiaries or affiliates . |
| 30 | If the former , have they made the point sufficiently clear , shown the foundation on which they are building , and set up adequate defences against Feuerbach 's criticisms ? |