Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] a [adj] committee " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 , in response to a White Paper on devolution to Scotland and Wales , the CNAA commented that it had always been sensitive to the specific conditions and needs of Scotland , and that it might be appropriate for the CNAA to set up a Scottish Committee . |
| 2 | The government was on stronger ground with the proposal to set up a coordinating committee to act as a channel of communication , mainly to the Home Office , for up to thirty organisations involved with refugees . |
| 3 | In September last year , President Ershad set up a national committee which , according to its own press release , intends to ‘ restore honour and dignity to the tribal peoples ’ by withdrawing the army , banning further immigration and returning the land which had been ‘ illegally and fraudulently ’ seized . |
| 4 | The agreement included a clause setting up a joint committee to oversee air quality . |
| 5 | There were echoes here of 1984 , the year in which the main associations of the book world set up a joint committee to run a vigorous campaign to fight the then Thatcher government 's rumoured intention of levying a positive rate of VAT on books and learned journals . |
| 6 | SCOTVEC therefore welcomed the decision of SED to set up a small committee to look at the module/short course issues , particularly in the context of schools ' S3/4 stages . |
| 7 | And the EEC this year set up a technical committee to help the development of trolleybuses . |
| 8 | Their development has been entrusted to the Countryside Commission , which has been given a grant of £600,000 to set up a co-ordinating committee for each forest . |
| 9 | In 1977 UNEP set up a co-ordinating committee to review research and calculate projections for ozone depletion . |