Example sentences of "[noun sg] set up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the typology sets up these principles , only a commentary can be faithful to them and maintain the text 's plurality . |
| 2 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 3 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 4 | Needless to say , additional funding to set up these units is often slow to materialise . |
| 5 | The money to set up these trusts is to be supplied by industry , and the schools are to be founded for the most part in inner cities , and are to be technological in character . |
| 6 | On March 4 , 1990 , Assad issued a law setting up special courts to investigate criminal cases involving government employees . |
| 7 | Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men . |
| 8 | Any such development depends crucially on popular initiatives and can not simply be legislated ( there are , however , important ways in which a socialist government could help to foster enterprise democracy , by making changes in company law , e. g. turning shareholders into mere bond-holders , granting the right to set up democratic mechanisms where this was approved by the workforce , and by means of preferential funding for democratic enterprises and ‘ workers ’ plans ' ) . |
| 9 | The WWF team set up 34 cameras in the undergrowth , linked to pressure pads hidden on animal trails . |
| 10 | Sir Frederick Halliday offered to resign from his position as chair of the Joint Committee for Nature Conservation — a body set up four months ago to supervise Britain 's conservation standards following the break-up of the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 11 | The Japanese remuneration schedule sets up sizable disincentives to careerism based on information hoard-ing . |
| 12 | The Symposium was sponsored by P100M — a Dutch-based organisation set up three years ago to study the causes of violations of human rights — and the NVPP — the Dutch Association for Political Psychology . |
| 13 | AN ORGANISATION set up three years ago to advise ministers on the running of the health service in Scotland is being wound up . |
| 14 | In the United States , there was a recognition that interdisciplinary proposals could ‘ fall between the cracks ’ ( Porter and Rossini ) , and the National Science Foundation set up separate panels to review proposals which fell into this category . |
| 15 | In the Republic , as in the North , a parents ' movement to set up integrated schools was started around the same time . |
| 16 | The summit set up working parties to examine specific issues of regional co-operation , and produced outline agreements on a number of economic initiatives including the construction of new road , rail and telecommunications links . |
| 17 | Seeing that there was commercial potential in what they were doing , in March 1989 she and a colleague set up Immune Systems Ltd , a biotechnology company that develops and markets applications of monoclonal antibodies . |
| 18 | When local government reorganization in 1974 led to Sheffield being ordered by the national Labour Party to disband these structures , the city 's labour movement set up other channels of influence , and the trade union delegates were elected directly to the new District Labour Party , which in turn monitored the activities of the new District Council . |
| 19 | By the 1940s and 1950s the Red Poll was one of Britain 's major breeds but , in the rush to set up new herds , breeding standards began to slip badly on the farm , while at the same time the invading Friesian , fed on concentrates , considerably outyielded the breed and by the early 1960s its popularity had tumbled . |
| 20 | In Lesotho , a project to set up small plantations for fuelwood failed to consult local villagers , and the plantations are now underused and uneconomic . |
| 21 | Prutec , a venture capital fund set up 18 months ago by Prudential Assurance , with £20 million to spend on high-technology projects , has yet to invest in any British biotechnology company , other than Speywood . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For years we have er all , producers and consumers , we have supported the idea that a market would be a reasonable way to set up reasonable levels of price . |
| 24 | DI5 in conjunction with army intelligence and the Special Branch set up two brothels and a ‘ massage parlour ’ in the Malone Road and Antrim Road districts of Belfast to obtain material with which to blackmail clients into becoming informers or agents . |
| 25 | It took the Marines a remarkably short time to set up defensible emplacements on the wide dockside , before Mortimer sent his men into the city , ordering small groups to leapfrog each other in order to secure the university and consulates . |
| 26 | Talks held on Nov. 3 between President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia , President Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Mate Boban , effectively the Croatian leader in Bosnia , resulted in an agreement to set up joint commands in the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosna [ see p. 39103 ] . |
| 27 | Following an agreement set up two years ago , their President , Ken Lawrence and Vice President , Craig Lepere , together with eight others visited the factory at Elderslie to further their knowledge on traditional Axminster and Wilton weaving . |
| 28 | Berkeley Eastoak Investment , the jointly-owned commercial property arm set up 18 months ago , announced yesterday it was doubling its original £100m investment in the market . |