Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] set up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 2 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 3 | The final major institution was to be the Court of Justice , not to be confused with the European Court of Human Rights set up under the 1950 Convention and based in Strasbourg along with the Council of Europe . |
| 4 | In 1920 , Moscow recognized the independent governments set up after the defeat of the White forces . |
| 5 | Several prominent figures refused to take the test , including a former state prosecutor Mohammad Moussavi Khoeniha and a former chief justice Ayatollah Abdelkarim Moussavi Ardebili ; among those who did take it , but failed , were Ayatollah Karrubi and Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali ( the head of the Islamic revolutionary courts set up after the 1979 revolution ) . |
| 6 | The businessmen then trade their wares , which also include pictures and antiques , at makeshift auctions set up around the province . |
| 7 | Britain had sunk vast capital sums into the military installations set up in the Suez Canal Zone and at Alexandria to serve the British campaigns in the Mediterranean during the Second World War . |
| 8 | Many ex-army tradeswomen set up in the brewing trade , opening licensed houses where they could . |
| 9 | Replacing the old structure which had been closely linked to the CPCz , the new Confederation of Czechoslovak Trade Unions was immediately joined by over 30 unions — both restructured existing unions and new ones set up since the November revolution . |