Example sentences of "[noun] set up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 2 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 3 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 4 | In the first half of 1858 gentry committees like those which the Nazimov Rescript set up in the north-western provinces came into being throughout the European part of the empire . |
| 5 | Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday . |
| 6 | This nest set up on the flat lands beyond the power stations on the south east coast will provide the evidence to Bill and his bird watching colleagues It 's not only the owls that fly at night , waders will feed at any time , but the rising tide will force them to leave the mud flats day or night |
| 7 | Petitions were fastened to a statue of Julius Caesar set up in the Roman Forum , and appeals for justice were made to statues of emperors in later antiquity . |
| 8 | The Stock Exchange is party to the central compensation fund set up under the Financial Services Act , in which losses due to fraud or the collapse of an institution of 100 per cent up to £30 000 and 90 per cent of losses up to £20 000 are recompensed , and then nothing after that . |
| 9 | THE investor protection system set up under the Financial Services Act is creaking under the strain , less than three years after it swung into operation . |
| 10 | It discusses the regulatory system set up under the Financial Services Act 1986 ( FSA or the Act ) , and the position of futures under that regime . |
| 11 | Union officials held an hour-long meeting with Mr Clarke at the Home Office , urging him to retain the pay formula set up after the bitter nine-week strike in 1977/78 . |