Example sentences of "[be] set up [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A tiny crack in the ice of formal relations with the Shipping Federation had appeared in June 1917 , when , arising out of an ad hoc conference attended by both parties on their own initiative on the limited issue of overtime in port on weekly vessels , a suggestion by the union that a Standing Central Joint Committee and appropriate District Committees might be set up to deal with this particular question , and possibly others , was referred by the representatives of the shipowners to their main body for consideration . |
2 | An arbitration commission could also be set up to deal with disputes between private investors and individual countries . |
3 | Panic announced on Oct. 15 that joint working groups would be set up to deal with human rights violations , the lifting of discriminatory laws , media freedom and education . |
4 | A hotline is to be set up to deal with complaints . |
5 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
6 | It was envisaged that teachers ' centres would be set up based on the three colleges and that these would combine in-service course work with active experimentation on new approaches . |
7 | It was agreed at this meeting that a Housing Sub-committee should be set up consisting of two representatives from the PC , two from the PCC and two other local people to be co-opted . |
8 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
9 | At the same time Sir David Maxwell Fyfe persistently refused the requests of Sir Robert Boothby in Parliament that a Royal Commission should be set up to enquire into the nature and treatment of homosexuality . |
10 | Under other legislation , less formal committees may be set up to enquire into trade disputes , and in the 1960s Lord Devlin produced three reports on the port industry and Lord Cameron reported on a dispute concerning bank employees . |