Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun sg] set up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 My favourite story involved the joint telecommunications company set up by GEC and Plessey in France and called GPT .
2 Any approval by Cork County Council will be appealed to the new Appeals Authority set up by the Minister for Local Government ;
3 The new Public Appointments Unit set up in 1975 to revivify the List was run by Jonathan Charkham , a well-heeled nomad who had begun his career as a barrister , went into industry , and by the late eighties was working for the Bank of England .
4 Any study of Abwehr intelligence affairs during the Second World War constantly refers to the work of SOE , the Special Operations Executive set up by British Intelligence in 1940 on Churchill 's instructions to coordinate resistance and the underground movement in Europe . ’
5 The Milice was a political police force set up by Vichy to safeguard Pétain 's National Revolution and combat enemies of the ‘ new moral order ’ , identified as communists , freemasons and Jews .
6 KPMG Peat Marwick partner Ian Watt has become head of the special investigations unit set up at Lord Bingham 's suggestion , as part of the Bank of England 's supervisory system .
7 Intervention was confined to abolishing the Health Services Board set up by Labour to regulate private sector growth , stopping the phasing out of pay beds and allowing consultants on full-time health service contracts to earn up to 10 per cent of their NHS salaries from private practice without any salary deduction .
8 Klebeck , 86 , had never faced trial for his many alleged crimes in the Alderney camps because the British government had not released relevant classified documents even to the war crimes inquiry set up by the government in 1988 [ see p. 36190 ] .
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