Example sentences of "they set up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( First Edition ) Two senior council officers were suspended on full pay pending an inquiry into a chain of consultancy companies they set up on public health , waste management , food hygiene and urban renewal . |
| 2 | Taff and I watched fascinated as they set up their equipment , then started to dig a slit trench . |
| 3 | Most managers want to take commission on any deals they set up for the artist . |
| 4 | The people divided : Magharba to the north , Zuwaya to the south ; and the committee marshalled the Magharba into the northwesterly quarter ; they set up a teller 's desk near the goalposts , and the voters walked behind the goal-posts ; past a clerk , returning to the pitch where they watched , chatted , and listened to the count . |
| 5 | In summer they set up a video camera on Berry Head near Torquay to show close-up views of cliff-dwelling birds . |
| 6 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 7 | They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers . |
| 8 | They set up a new organisation called the Sub-Tenants ' Committee , which would campaign ‘ not on political but on humanitarian grounds ’ . |
| 9 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 10 | There they set up a rear headquarters and resupply dump . |
| 11 | They set up a system of hotel coupons ( 1867 ) , through rail tickets , international ship and rail timetables , and guidebooks , and between 1873 and 1874 they introduced the Circular Note , forerunner of the travellers cheque . |
| 12 | When the Countryside Commission received a bequest of over £300,000 they set up the Countryside Trust which is being used to make grants to assist fundraising for projects . |
| 13 | With the greater prevalence of cohabitation as a prelude to marriage , many couples feel they make their public commitment to each other when they set up house together and sign the joint mortgage form . |
| 14 | They set up camp on the Kālādika , unloading the yaks and lighting a fire as the moon rose low behind the trees . |
| 15 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 16 | Their approaches differed — they consulted with organizations from the oppressed groups ; they set up new committee structures ; they funded voluntary groups and made space available to them ; they arranged awareness-training for their staff . |
| 17 | Long before the prayer was answered , Malc fell in love with a bus conductress and they set up home together , while the kids and I went back to live with my Pop . |
| 18 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 19 | They set up sessions where people could come and talk about the families , and make statements about the sort of people they were . |
| 20 | They set up a ruck , the ball was passed back to Sherrell who dropped a goal . |
| 21 | They set up diversions at Quy and Six Mile Bottom , East Cambridgeshire council helped clear grain and Suffolk police aided traffic filtering on the westbound side . |
| 22 | They set up home together . |
| 23 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 24 | Early in the war , in London , they set up something called Special Operations Executive , and my father was a natural for it . |
| 25 | So , they set up Phonelink to provide the ‘ Datacare ’ bureau service . |
| 26 | In December they set up a new one to consider moving the capital . |
| 27 | Elite theorists rarely construct their own analysis of input processes from a blank canvas ; rather , they set up a pluralist ( or Marxist ) story , frequently a straw man , which they proceed to contrast with the darker side of liberal democratic politics ( and the impossibility of seriously reforming it ) . |
| 28 | It was probably natural that the community they set up was so convinced of its own religious ideals that it thought toleration was harmful , but it was also natural that the strong-minded people who had committed themselves to this Atlantic crossing were not able to agree among themselves what was the true religion to which they were so committed . |
| 29 | Their real force can be discerned from the extent to which the problematics they set up have continued to exercise subsequent writers . |
| 30 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |