Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv prt] a [adj] commission " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wants to set up a local-government commission to review the structure of local government across England . |
| 2 | The two agreed to set up a joint commission examining the issue . |
| 3 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 4 | It was therefore decided to set up a Royal Commission to review the whole problem of criminal behaviour and of the means of dealing with it . |
| 5 | A communiqué issued at the end of the talks said that " Iran and Iraq and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) have agreed to set up a joint commission to review the resumption of the exchange of prisoners of war " . |