Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1917 the British government set up a new department of overseas trade designed to bring commerce and foreign policy into more effective contact : its head was to be responsible to both the foreign secretary and the president of the board of trade . |
| 2 | And the EEC this year set up a technical committee to help the development of trolleybuses . |
| 3 | As a movement in the same direction the German foreign office set up a legal and commercial department in 1885 and the British one acquired a legal adviser in 1893 ( a post of Legal Assistant Under-Secretary had already been created in 1876 ) . |
| 4 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
| 5 | Sheffield , too , had such links ( even before reorganization ) formalized in an Industrial Development Advisory Committee , involving representatives of industry , trade unions , central government departments as well as the city council , and in the late 1970s Nottinghamshire set up an economic forum involving similar groups ( Johnson and Cochrane , 1981 , p. 171 ) . |
| 6 | The promotion-winning team set off a short time ago from the County Ground to tour the town in an open-topped bus , before a civic reception given by Thamesdown Council . |
| 7 | A neat interchange in the 24th minute set up a good chance for Dinamo 's Djamaravli , but he scooped his shot high and wide . |
| 8 | In his speech , the Prime Minister set out the weak position from which he negotiates on economic and monetary union . |
| 9 | In 1977 UNEP set up a co-ordinating committee to review research and calculate projections for ozone depletion . |
| 10 | In 1887 Davies set up a limited liability company , the Ocean Coal Company , with a nominal capital of £536,000 . |
| 11 | In 1860 Frith set up a photographic company in Reigate to record as many locations in Britain as he could . |
| 12 | The Combined Studies Board in October of that year set up a special working party to discuss a variety of difficulties being encountered , including resource constraints facing the BA in Music at Huddersfield Polytechnic , acute accommodation difficulties facing the creative arts course at Newcastle Polytechnic , and poor recruitment and various kinds of dissatisfaction at some other institutions . |
| 13 | The first section of that document set out a powerful ‘ case for a common curriculum in secondary education to 16 ’ . |
| 14 | Following an address on July 6 to the Council 's Assembly by the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , the first by an East European leader ( see pp. 36821-22 ) , the Council and the Soviet Union set up a joint working group to develop contacts and co-operation which met in September and October . |
| 15 | In 1988 McBain set up The Electronic Studio , a technology and business systems specialist . |
| 16 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |