Example sentences of "set up an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board of Trade promptly set up an enquiry into the industry and its methods and techniques . |
| 2 | Here the organisers have set up an international event where walkers , climbers and people everywhere can do something they enjoy doing and benefit others at the same time . |
| 3 | Although no one has set up an experiment to show that horses in a mentally enriched environment have superior intelligence to those reared in a mentally deprived environment , this has been frequently shown with smaller animals . |
| 4 | Mr Litman , who has set up an office in Moscow , is unperturbed by his rivals ' plans and promises that his ageing ex-spies will provide ‘ astounding new material that will shatter myths and create new controversies . ’ |
| 5 | They have set up an AIDS task force , which has been searching for the bug that causes the disease ; they suspect a virus . |
| 6 | With the express intent of reducing dependence on South Africa , nine states of southern Africa have set up an economic cooperation association , SADCC . |
| 7 | The American Canoe Association have set up an international pen pal scheme for children . |
| 8 | BP Chemicals has set up an enquiry into the incident and the site has been visited by representatives of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 9 | West Midlands police have set up an incident room at the city 's Little Park Street police station where the mother is being interviewed . |
| 10 | CIMA , an original signatory , reports that in the first year it has ‘ set up an informal network to encourage women to stand for office on the Council ’ . |
| 11 | In Wales the WRFU has set up an international players ' trust fund . |
| 12 | There Is a vast backdrop-like painting — 200 feet long by twelve feet high — against which is set up an array of further paintings , drawings and sculptures , some of which incorporate scientific writing . |
| 13 | The group has also set up an in-house Oracle development facility at a cost of £15,000 . |
| 14 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 15 | Meanwhile 88Open , which boasts that some 80% of its business comes from Europe , has set up an office in the UK , under the charge of Steve Heath , previously from Motorola 's semiconductor operation . |
| 16 | Aran has set up an ICL division to accommodate the new business , which will be run by ex-Transaction Point employees . |
| 17 | The company , which has four US and four European offices , has set up an Asian-Pacific operation in Singapore . |
| 18 | Wakefield Council had set up an Adaptations and Disability Unit , bringing together staff from social services , environmental health and housing departments . |
| 19 | It is assumed that the two defendants have committed some crime at a stated time — say between 10 and 11 p.m. last Wednesday — and have set up an alibi . |
| 20 | Nearer the cottage the soldiers had set up an infestation grid , the dull mauve light attracting anything small and winged from the surrounding meadows . |
| 21 | The government has accepted Tomlinson 's recommendation for investment in premises and has set up an initiative zone to encourage new ideas . |
| 22 | Has set up an independent enquiry which will show the effect of closure . |
| 23 | The threat from Catholics was constantly raised by him , for example , when he linked the failures of foreign policies with the activities of domestic papists ( 1625 ) and raised the bogy of their ‘ swarming ’ in the suburbs , claiming that in his neighbourhood of Covent Garden they outnumbered Protestants by three to one and had set up an autonomous community too strong for ‘ us the justices ’ to ‘ cast out ’ . |
| 24 | He was sent back to England in 1595 and by 1605 he had set up an organization of recusant Welsh gentry , Welsh secular priests , and Jesuits ( centred in Gwent and extending up the marches ) . |
| 25 | Having set up an interview , Alex sat back , making notes , trying to think of other entrenched bastions of male privilege , circles from which women were excluded . |
| 26 | The Government have set up an effective system of regulation . |
| 27 | He will also be aware that Gwynedd has set up an inquiry into those incidents . |
| 28 | Saibou had described the police action on Feb. 9 ( which occurred when he was on a visit to Guinea-Bissau ) as " a mistake " , and had set up an inquiry into the incident . |
| 29 | According to Le Monde of April 4 the Somali National Movement ( SNM ) had set up an 11-member " government " in the north . |
| 30 | The CID had set up an incident room at sub-divisional headquarters . |