Example sentences of "set up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cope with this , I set up separate clients ' accounts with the bank with some funding from the band 's accountants . |
| 2 | Trade ministers and their respective chief negotiators set up working groups to cover six specific topics — market access , trade rules , services , investment , intellectual property and dispute settlement . |
| 3 | Some set up agricultural communities where they could take refuge from public contempt for ‘ conchies ’ and convince themselves that their experiments in communal living would , once ‘ the grim period of war is over … be remembered as the forerunner of the new society . ’ |
| 4 | A large crowd of white youths set up burning barricades and smashed windows , doors , and fences on the estate . |
| 5 | In the 1960s and 1970s most governments set up economic planning organizations which reflected these objectives . |
| 6 | Rich Athenians set up small factories in which the chief , but not the sole , source of labour was slaves . |
| 7 | In the Old City men set up small roadside stalls around big red earthenware pots containing jal jeera , a dark , spicy , green liquid which burns the mouth but cools the body : a more primitive yet more effective coolant than anything on offer in the new town . |
| 8 | These morons set up meaningless polls , people like me tell them that they 're meaningless , and then , when they turn out to be meaningless , they cry ‘ Amazing triumph for the Tories ! |
| 9 | Cops set up no-go areas for Asians in the frontline |
| 10 | They set up specific change-management systems that were administered by committees , subgroups of board members , and special study groups , and closely monitored the resulting efforts . |
| 11 | Some councils set up new industry or employment committees , staffed by their own departments . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Fields set up new offices in London 's West End — in Woodstock Street — with the reservations and booking staff . |
| 14 | Existing members of pension schemes set up prior to the 1989 Budget or who joined established schemes before 1 June 1989 may not be affected by the rule and may be entitled to a higher tax-free lump sum . |
| 15 | I wish to present a petition containing seven hundred and ninety six signatures organised by the Bell Group community childcare , set up due to lack of affordable child care facilities in the Belgrave area . |
| 16 | When the novelty of criticism began to wear off we set up rival fringe performances . |
| 17 | It reached its peak earlier this week when both Presidents set up rival command structures , forcing officers to choose whom to obey and from whom to risk a charge of mutiny . |
| 18 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 19 | Car companies set up environmental group |
| 20 | Usually , in doing so , they set up alternative signals : that this tent , this stretch of street , this canteen , this waiting-room , is where this different kind of artist wants his work to be seen . |
| 21 | Two large leather-covered armchairs were placed near a cast-iron stove , and between them there was a low table with a chessboard , the pieces set up ready for play . |
| 22 | The plant was built by the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD , which set up Eurochemic in 1957 . |
| 23 | Set up special links only as necessary and cancel them as soon as they have served their purpose . |
| 24 | They set up random checkpoints on roads between Ballymena and Portstewart stopping vehicles and looking for drugs . |
| 25 | Generally , when taxpayers set up non-resident trusts they have in mind with regard to income tax the special anti-avoidance provisions concerned with the transfer of assets abroad , namely TA 1988 , ss739 and 740 . |
| 26 | The 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act , which set up secular courts and procedures , established no new principle not involved in the old form of divorces by petitions in Acts of Parliament . |
| 27 | If either the Darwinians on the one hand , or the religious leaders of that time on the other , did make any effort to reconcile the theories of evolution with the doctrines of religion , they made no progress and the two factions became hopelessly opposed , and the religious leaders set up intense opposition to the teachings on evolution . |
| 28 | Assemblies met only once a year but set up permanent executive boards . |
| 29 | Millers set up local derby final |
| 30 | Soldiers set up barbed-wire fences , electricians wired up searchlights , carpenters built barracks and sentry boxes on elevated platforms . |