Example sentences of "set up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas slipping and sidestepping deftly , set up Creaney for a close range shot which Hamilton one-handed , just turned round . |
| 2 | The Palestinians , after applauding the actions of the Lebanese troops , set up shelters using tents provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross . |
| 3 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 4 | The result of these rules of practice was that the English set up colonies only in places where it was relatively easy to do so , at first because the places they went to were thinly populated , then because political disintegration in India enabled them to advance there , and because in the last phase of imperial expansion they had the sort of technological superiority needed for bringing most African rulers under their control . |
| 5 | Originally , Bill set up Mercia Weavers with a partner , Frank Paterson , also an ex-Stoddard man . |
| 6 | The government set up Committees for the Defence of the Republic . |
| 7 | So they scanned the local horizon and set up agreements with Strathclyde for management skills , Napier Poly for plastic skills , Paisley College of Technology for Materials skills , and so on . |
| 8 | It is two years since the 44-year-old former convict set up Convoy Aid and now he devotes his life to the Romanian orphans . |
| 9 | By the time Anthony Cheetham left and set up Century , Maxwell had bought BPCC and Thomas was appointed director of publicity , responsible for both paid-for promotions and PR . |
| 10 | W. J. Freeland set up groups of three mice , the different mice having been injected with different quantities of parasites . |
| 11 | Ricco Cardoni robbed Peter Shirtliff and set up Joao Cruz for a simple finish that had Spora 's fans — all 26 of them — dancing with delight . |
| 12 | As an assistant you will probably gather information , draft press releases , make up media invitation lists , search out information , set up meetings with outside specialists and consultants , deliver information to the media ( here is a chance to chat and get to know some faces in the media world ) . |
| 13 | Another quick break by St Albans set up Ian Plummer for his second goal at the start of the second half before Woodmill started to fight back . |
| 14 | Nine minutes later the score was 3–0 as John Brown broke into the penalty box and set up Ian Ferguson to fire home . |
| 15 | To get the best shots of the Falcon 's descent into an American football stadium Steve set up cameras inside the Hercules plane and attached to the freefallers themselves before positioning himself on the ground . |
| 16 | Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead . |
| 17 | The big centre-forward effortlessly strolled past David Burrows , moved into the penalty area and set up Bradley Allen — but his snatched shot went over . |
| 18 | ‘ Basically what we did was occupy the airport and set up positions more or less to keep the locals , cattle and goats off the runway , ’ said Captain Dave Hall . |
| 19 | Palace shocked Arsenal by taking a ninth-minute lead through Coleman , but Wright set up Merson 's first two minutes later with nice work on the right and Arsenal 's third for Campbell , a left-foot volley , in the 16th minute . |
| 20 | He set up Merson 's first with a bit of right wing trickery after Palace had had the audacity to take an eighth minute lead and then laid on Campbell 's stunning left foot volley , Arsenal 's third , all in the first 16 minutes . |
| 21 | In 1964–5 , with John Hopkins , he set up Love Books , specifically to publish experimental writing and poetry . |
| 22 | Now we never set up questions on the show — we 'll discuss areas that we might go into , but we never say , ‘ You say this to me , and then I 'll say that to you ’ , it just does n't work like that . |
| 23 | Maybe Billy himself set up Freddie the Lion to clear out the opposition in his own chosen patch . |
| 24 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |
| 25 | So they often set up subsidiaries , which earned maintenance revenues on the back of mainstream hardware sales . |
| 26 | But such pretentious billing set up Cuisine 2000 for instant mockery whenever problems arose — as surely they did . |
| 27 | In the French territories , the Free French set up transmitters in both Douala and Brazzaville to counter the pro-Vichy broadcasts emanating from Dakar . |
| 28 | The DPR directors had worked at LHW and set up DPR along the same principles . |
| 29 | Guppy ‘ set up gold scam ’ |
| 30 | Labs which for years had worked on more classical memory tasks found themselves funded to purchase morris mazes and set up LTP facilities . |