Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] an independent [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However there are no plans at present to set up an independent council to monitor the Government 's use of statistics . |
| 2 | Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth . |
| 3 | Earlier yesterday , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley instructed the authority to set up an independent inquiry to look into the circumstances surrounding Allitt 's killing spree on the children 's ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital . |
| 4 | The pressure group , made up mainly of small business customers , wants the Government to set up an independent body to investigate cases like his . |
| 5 | Second , the age at which people marry is closely related to their ability to set up an independent household , and for women who married under the age of 20 the numbers sharing accommodation with relatives changed little between the 1950s and the 1970s ( Holman , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Delegates representing miners in most Soviet coalfields held a week-long congress in mid-June in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk , at which it was decided in principle to set up an independent miners ' union . |
| 7 | In the UK , the most notable defection from an international company to set up an independent search business has been that by David Norman and Miles Broadbent , who were both previous Mds of Russell Reynolds in London , and who took with them other colleagues to found Norman Broadbent . |