Example sentences of "set up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 the Department of Employment set up Regional Benefit Investigation Teams . |
| 2 | After last year 's bomb the City 's police installed surveillance equipment , hired around 40 extra officers , and set up occasional road blocks . |
| 3 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 4 | While Gainsborough was becoming enfeebled , nothing was being done outside Ealing and Independent Producers to bring on talent or set up new centres of production strength . |
| 5 | In the past year , five electronics firms have either expanded or set up new factories in Glenrothes , creating extra work for a couple of hundred people . |
| 6 | In response , the Public Health Act 1872 set up new local sanitary authorities to police legislation . |
| 7 | Termites and ants do it seasonally when the time comes for them to mate , disperse and set up new colonies . |
| 8 | Vera Brittain was very much in sympathy with new feminism and together with Eva Hubback set up fee-paying baby clubs for middle class mothers during the late 1920s , because she recognised the anxieties of women struggling to follow the impossible infant-feeding and training schedules advocated by specialists . |
| 9 | The object-oriented database developer , Object Design Inc is aiming to become a $100m company by 1995 , and to do so , has expanded its direct sales operations and set up European headquarters in the UK . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They write the programmes , devise the repertoires and set up standard operating procedures without which the financial , welfare , military and economic management tasks of government would not be administratively feasible . |
| 12 | It set up complex criteria . |
| 13 | Bruce Palmer , a partner , said he had helped Mr Tancock set up Global Finance earlier this year , but had not received independent confirmation of what the company did . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the following two years most of the major unions , and the TUC itself , set up working parties and produced a range of discussion documents and policy statements . |
| 16 | To clarify the confusion , Brent CAB set up temporary special sessions to advise people about their status in the UK , their rights to British citizenship and the associated costs . |
| 17 | Users can be forced to change their passwords at set intervals , and you can examine an audit trail of a user 's previous passwords , and set up temporary accounts . |
| 18 | Twice he set up striking partner Kevin Campbell for chances that were well saved by Ipswich 's Canadian goalkeeper Craig Forrest . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | True to a tradition dating back to World War II underwater demolition and beach reconnaissance teams , they had not only a high standard of swimming and small boat skills , but also patrolled ashore , and set up small but deadly ambushes . |
| 21 | He settled into an export-import office in Bush House in the Strand , and set up parallel networks of secret intelligence agents to cover the penetrated areas , using the codename Z and avoiding the use of wireless . |
| 22 | The clampdown has exposed the close links between landowners , the security forces and the cocaine cartels , who set up paramilitary squads to ‘ clean out ’ left-wing activists from rural areas such as the Magdalena Medio . |
| 23 | Yvonne Simpson , honorary secretary of the BDA 's Darlington branch , said many hospitals had now gone beyond special staff and set up diabetic units staffed by consultants . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control . |
| 26 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 27 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 28 | The aim is to mobilise academic communities in the Third World to help create and set up small-scale chemical industries . |
| 29 | It advised a future Conservative cabinet to : ( i ) build up stocks of coal at power stations ; ( ii ) plan contingency coal imports ; ( iii ) introduce dual oil and coal-fired burning in power stations ; ( iv ) cut the social security entitlements of strikers ; and finally , ( v ) set up mobile police squads to deal with flying pickets and obtain sufficient numbers of ‘ reliable ’ non-union drivers to cross picket lines . |
| 30 | finding ways to acquire and set up sustainable and free media institutions , and requesting , as a right , allocation of adequate air time on government controlled radio and television media . |