Example sentences of "[noun pl] set up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 2 | He also confirmed that France , which left NATO 's military structure in 1966 [ see pp. 21605-10 ] , would be invited to participate in plans to set up multinational units . |
| 3 | Trade ministers and their respective chief negotiators set up working groups to cover six specific topics — market access , trade rules , services , investment , intellectual property and dispute settlement . |
| 4 | The WWF is calling on governments to set up conservation programmes which take into account the needs of local people , and ensure that they can draw direct benefits from the presence of tigers in their area . |
| 5 | Sixty alleged Palestinian informers or collaborators had been killed by August 1989 , as the Israeli Defence Force ( IDF ) and Shin Bet ( the Israeli secret police ) increased their use of informers to set up paramilitary groups working alongside Palestinian collaborators . |
| 6 | Cops set up no-go areas for Asians in the frontline |
| 7 | Rich Athenians set up small factories in which the chief , but not the sole , source of labour was slaves . |
| 8 | The static checkpoint operation continued for most of the day , relieved only When elements of the company were flown from their entrenched positions to set up snap checkpoints on roads that could not be covered permanently . |
| 9 | Several colleges have produced suggested objectives , and in some places course organisers for vocational training schemes have worked with local consultants to set up educational objectives for senior house officers who are trainee general practitioners . |
| 10 | Generally , when taxpayers set up non-resident trusts they have in mind with regard to income tax the special anti-avoidance provisions concerned with the transfer of assets abroad , namely TA 1988 , ss739 and 740 . |
| 11 | Most significant was the process by which peasants divided large households to set up new families in their own homes , and merged those which old age and death had rendered unviable . |
| 12 | Peasants were united in their hostility towards the small number of households who left their villages to set up separate homesteads under Stolypin 's provisions , and , above all , towards the nobility . |
| 13 | Governments may adopt various industrial , regional and fiscal policies designed to increase the incentive to entrepreneurs to set up new businesses and possibly also to reduce the ‘ red tape ’ involved . |
| 14 | A large crowd of white youths set up burning barricades and smashed windows , doors , and fences on the estate . |
| 15 | Fields set up new offices in London 's West End — in Woodstock Street — with the reservations and booking staff . |
| 16 | Helps tenants and residents to set up new associations . |
| 17 | a great share of the blame for military clashes lies with the tsarist voevody who organized campaigns deep into [ native ] lands to set up strong points , to search out new ‘ lands ’ and to return ‘ traitors and unruly elements ’ to subjection . |
| 18 | The right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) may find this surprising , but I deplore the fact that some people who work in counselling services set up those services specifically to rip off people . |
| 19 | Soldiers set up barbed-wire fences , electricians wired up searchlights , carpenters built barracks and sentry boxes on elevated platforms . |
| 20 | These morons set up meaningless polls , people like me tell them that they 're meaningless , and then , when they turn out to be meaningless , they cry ‘ Amazing triumph for the Tories ! |
| 21 | There followed a series of laws setting up separate schools for Sri Lanka 's different language-groups and establishing quotas for Sinhala-speakers in universities . |