Example sentences of "set up in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set up in 1975 , CITES regulates trade by its 103-member nations in hundreds of rare and endangered species from orchids to orang utans . |
| 2 | Set up in 1920 by actor Leslie Howard and director Adrian Brunel among others , with the hope that they could do something about ‘ raising the standards of British films ’ , the company had only enough capital to produce six short comedies . |
| 3 | Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) chronicles the breakdown of a community of nuns set up in the Himalayas , riven by inner conflicts and pulled apart by the intrusion of romantic figures from outside . |
| 4 | Britain had sunk vast capital sums into the military installations set up in the Suez Canal Zone and at Alexandria to serve the British campaigns in the Mediterranean during the Second World War . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It seems clear from the surviving images that emperors took interest in and approved the form of their portraits , particularly those that would be seen by many of their subjects on coins and statues set up in public places . |
| 7 | Set up in 1972 , the NRC is not a permanent body and is only activated in times of crisis — as during the miners ' strike , from which two developments of particular importance emerged . |
| 8 | Set up in 1980 to turn Kuwait 's oil and gas interests into an international company , the company has bought up most of Gulf Oil 's European assets . |
| 9 | Existing techniques are accurate enough to measure such changes in the Sun 's size directly , and monitoring programmes set up in the wake of these various claims and counter-claims will resolve the issue , one way or another , before the end of the decade . |
| 10 | Augustine must smash the idols , but the temples themselves should be sprinkled with holy water and altars set up in them in which relics are to be enclosed … |
| 11 | The Ozone Trends Panel , a working party of scientists set up in 1986 by NASA , has calculated a three per cent depletion in stratospheric ozone on a global level since 1969 . |
| 12 | It condemns us as lifelong victims of patterns set up in childhood , the unwilling prey of our devilish subconscious , the helpless captives of our ‘ character ’ or genetic make-up . |
| 13 | Instead of re-running programmes set up in childhood , we can create new programmes , so that we learn how to consciously programme our own lives . |
| 14 | The design works best in performance , where she favours the creation of something akin to the surround-sound sometimes set up in cinemas . |
| 15 | Roadblocks set up in every town and particularly in and around Belfast to thwart IRA bomb attacks have been lifted . |
| 16 | Much of the committee 's and the JMU 's perception of the profession to date has been derived from early visits set up in response to doubts created by registration information and by JMU visits in response to complaints . |
| 17 | Yet at the time , he admits , he saw it merely as a way to travel , learn the ropes and then set up in business on his own account . |
| 18 | Set up in 1942 under the unpromising name of the Taxation and Financial Relations Committee , the TAC was designed to provide a forum ( and perhaps a safety valve ) for the growing number of business members who at that time were excluded from Council membership , but who wished to contribute their business experience to the consideration of taxation and financial issues . |
| 19 | About half the companies set up in the UK over the last 10 years are no longer with us . |
| 20 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 21 | Set up in agreement with the Board of Trade and the Department of Social Security , the ER scheme allows new entrepreneurs to set up in business for three months without losing any state benefits . |
| 22 | Set up in 1987 , Futuroscope calls itself an image park . |
| 23 | Throughout the period a high percentage of workers , especially in the newly developed areas and the many enterprises set up in rural areas , were born into peasant families . |
| 24 | Set up in 1984 , Radio RIN currently broadcasts for 20 hours a day and successfully competes with many of the country 's commercial stations . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Spanish system is modelled on those set up in the U.S. ( Indemnity Act of 1975 ) and the U.K. ( National Indemnity act of 1980 ) . |
| 27 | The most recent review of quotas set up in March 1987 failed to conclude its review , and as a result the IMF board of governors requested fresh proposals for new quotas by April 1989 ; until that review the level of Fund quotas remained unchanged at SDR89.99 billion . |
| 28 | Set up in 1851 , the first of these precursors of the CWS was the London-based Central Co-operative Agency . |
| 29 | It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s . |
| 30 | OsO4 vapour is highly toxic and this manipulation is best undertaken by incubating embryos in small drops of 0504 under oil in plastic Petri dishes ( set up in a fume cupboard ) . |