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

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1 It is scarcely feasible for the communes to set up the apparatus to assess local household incomes ; this is a matter that is best left to the republics and provinces .
2 The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association .
3 LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates .
4 But because of the cash required the Town Hall wants to join forces with other major employers to set up the scheme .
5 The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes .
6 Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 .
7 The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 .
8 Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues .
9 Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run .
10 To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients .
11 We bought the machine and I spent several hours over the next few days setting up the system .
12 He and Tam Henderson spent two days setting up the recording equipment before the orchestra arrived .
13 In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC .
14 For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings .
15 A company must pay consultants to set up the programme and chemists to test the urine .
16 In the following year Koops set up the Minerva Universal Insurance Office in Pall Mall , Westminster .
17 The text of their draft resolution will ask the secretary general , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , to study ways to set up the court .
18 The three partners set up the Viscose Syndicate in 1893 , with the aim of producing adhesives , films , coatings for natural fibres , and mouldings , and British Viscoid Ltd. followed in 1896 .
19 Material sufficient for three divisions was despatched to the nationalist regime of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in aid of his war against Greece , and the honeymoon period with Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek ( 1922–27 ) saw the granting of more than $2 million in military aid to the Kuomintang : whilst Soviet advisers set up the Whampoa military academy and trained soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army in the field , Soviet troops performed limited combat missions , including aerial bombardment and reconnaissance .
20 In 1611 he was consulted by Londoners setting up the Londonderry plantation , and showed positive interest in joining an oil-milling venture there .
21 Some concern was expressed about the slow progress on negotiations to set up the museum and it was hoped that a further meeting with Shropshire Leisure Services could be set up soon .
22 She 'd seen him earlier , talking to one of the men setting up the car ramps on the far side of the field .
23 It is well worth spending a few minutes setting up the rails and lace carriage to see how it works even if you do n't want to knit with them at present .
24 The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 .
25 According to the Constitution , the treaties , including the clauses setting up the League , had to be agreed by a two-thirds majority in the Senate .
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