Example sentences of "setting up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lithuanian government has already leased one 10-year-old Boeing 737 from GPA , and many western airlines are exploring the opportunities for setting up joint ventures using Western aircraft . |
| 2 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 3 | The move fits in with ICL 's strategy , begun three years ago , of developing ‘ arms-length ’ businesses ; basically setting up joint ventures and autonomous companies . |
| 4 | Contingent economic agreements provided for a repeal of the US ban on the import of Soviet gold coins , the lifting of restrictions on Soviet borrowing from the US government 's Export-Import Bank ( which was expected to stimulate US companies ' interest in setting up joint ventures in the Soviet Union ) , and payment by the Soviet Union of a debt of US$674,000,000 owed for supplies furnished under the Lend-Lease programme during the Second World War . |
| 5 | One study , based on sixty-six Third World firms ( and the evidence from other studies ) , found three main reasons for setting up joint ventures : host-government pressure , the need for the partner 's skills and the need for other attributes or assets . |
| 6 | THE BACKERS of an unusual operation to recover tin From mud on the seabed off Cornwall are interested in setting up similar ventures elsewhere . |
| 7 | Only in the later 1820s is there clear evidence not only of the pursuit of mass public meetings , as at Liverpool in April 1828 , but collaboration in setting up similar meetings in other major centres . |
| 8 | The company is now setting up similar paint ventures within other car plants , not just in America . |
| 9 | Now the group 's pledged 2 000 000 pounds over the next 4 years to setting up similar hostels elsewhere . |
| 10 | From quite an early age , his mother told me , John 's interest in theatrical things , and specifically in ballet , manifested itself in setting up cardboard boxes as stages , with pipe cleaners for dancers . |
| 11 | Work at setting up good information sources and networks . |
| 12 | Setting up such products needs the co-operation of foreign telephone-network operators . |
| 13 | I believe the issues are important enough to warrant setting up such a faculty now . |
| 14 | Setting up such a Common Fund proved even more difficult and it was not until 1986 that the required number of states ratified the agreement . |
| 15 | They would need training and should receive remuneration ; colleges and postgraduate deans should together be responsible for setting up such a system . |
| 16 | The low cost of setting up such a system allows people who have never ventured beyond typewriter or wordprocessor to produce material which looks as though it has been professionally typeset . |
| 17 | The best way , though time consuming , of setting up such a system is by a participative approach . |
| 18 | In setting up such a scheme great care needs to be taken in explaining to all participants the rationale behind the decision and the positive gains involved . |
| 19 | Martin Easteal , the chief executive of the commission which is reviewing English local government , thought setting up such a body was a sensible way of dealing with the matter . |
| 20 | Instead there can be a series of bilateral relationships within the framework of a multilateral treaty , effectively setting up other third party relationships . |
| 21 | Consequently , while the method chosen to resolve the economic crisis brought political as well as economic benefits , it also involved the risk of setting up other political and economic tensions which might ultimately defeat the object of the exercise : the consolidation and continuation of the Franco regime . |
| 22 | Those seeking a central role for the state will doubtless query the advantages of setting up friendly societies competing for members , when a universal service is provided by the state . |
| 23 | For example , setting up visual aids for presentations , laying on special effects , getting slides made , preparing reports , and putting together material from outside services . |
| 24 | Thirdly , we had the 1985 Report by the then Association of Health Service Treasurers on managing capital assets in the NHS ( AHST , 1985 ) , in the light of which work is under way at three DHAs on setting up comprehensive asset systems . |
| 25 | On April 12 two leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj , were formally charged by a military court in the town of Blida with inciting armed rebellion and sabotage , and setting up illegal armed militias . |
| 26 | And I 'll use any tools to do that , from playing games or getting them to draw their feelings , or setting them photo assignments or working on family album photographs or using masks or setting up psycho-dramatic tableux with them . |
| 27 | Vines resigned from the College in 1838 , setting up private practice at 13 Great College Street , the third house up from the College . |
| 28 | On March 6 , 1990 , both Presidents signed the " San Pedro Alejandrino " agreement promising to implement future proposals of existing bilateral border commissions and setting up five more bilateral commissions , one of which was to deal with the controversial issue of territorial demarcation in the Gulf of Venezuela . |
| 29 | Even the CYL became involved with the tide , setting up small businesses to help raise money ( ZGQN 16. 7. 1988 : 15 ) . |
| 30 | Other specific provision includes an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) initiative which seeks to help unwaged individuals from ethnic minorities to look at the skills involved in setting up small businesses or entering self-employment . |