Example sentences of "[noun] [be] set up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps we will even copy the German Gruppe in which the decentralized units are set up as separate companies with their own top managements .
2 ‘ Management development programme being set up for all departments and supervisory training for clerical and manual staff ’ …
3 Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists .
4 When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium .
5 In such cases the first signs of a dialectic occur : the actor is both experiencing and describing ; an oscillation is set up between these two incompatible grammatical constructs , the verb and the adjective .
6 After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field .
7 The programme was set up in 1987 and named in memory of two employees — Ben Hajadi , an engineer who died in a car accident , and Solomon , who lost his life in a helicopter crash .
8 The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind :
9 She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace .
10 The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom .
11 New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced .
12 In Michigan , the Women 's Task Force on Rape was set up in 1973 .
13 This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments .
14 After an initiative by JWT , a committee was set up under former Treasury mandarin Sir Leon Pliatzky to examine production practices and to recommend action to control cost inflation .
15 The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament .
16 When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work .
17 A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications .
18 Though an Interagency Country Risk Exposure Review Committee was set up in 1978 to assemble the facts , no one insisted that the banks took notice of them or acted accordingly .
19 The Auschwitz museum was set up in 1955 , when most visitors were Poles with immediate memories of Nazi occupation .
20 Cooperative was set up in 1989 by old hands from Tandem Computers Inc , including VP of research Kim Worsencroft and CEO Dennis McEvoy , so Ellipse is inherently resilient to errors and failures .
21 WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name .
22 The " Green Con " awards were set up in 1989 to highlight bogus claims to environmental worthiness made by business .
23 Lesbian and Gay-Men 's Sub-Committees were set up in such a way as to give a high level of representation to people from outside the council 's structure , and to ensure that their voices could be heard .
24 Local Marine Boards were set up in all main ports and a Shipping Master appointed by each to take administrative responsibility for masters ' and mates ' examinations and the business of engaging and discharging seamen under pain of penalty for " crimping " and other similar offences .
25 The Oakes Report , which appeared exactly one year after the setting-up of the committee , made a number of recommendations of which perhaps the most important was that an independent national body be set up with specific terms of reference to include the ‘ general oversight of the development of maintained higher education ’ and the responsibility to ‘ collect , analyse and present where appropriate in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science and the University Grants Committee information affecting the demand for and supply of higher education in the maintained sector ’ .
26 It was found that in all animals the mechanism of the body is set up in such a way that the head leads a movement and the body then follows .
27 A working party chaired by Lady Vaizey was set up in 1977 to look into the question of making such payments , but although it produced a paper on the subject , no further action was taken .
28 ANDRA was set up in 1977 under the auspices of the atomic energy commission ( Commissariat à l'Énergie atomique ) and its sister organization , the state nuclear corporation ( Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires ) .
29 A committee of inquiry was set up in 1974 to consider the whole question of the education of handicapped children and young people and to review existing provision .
30 Consideration of the franchise bad followed Unionist demands for votes for servicemen , and a Speaker 's Conference was set up in 1916 , with the Unionist members led by Sir William Bull and Sir Harry Samuel .
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