Example sentences of "[noun sg] set up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
| 2 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 3 | Yesterday , though , the independent committee set up by the Government to look at the admissibility of pre-trial video interviews of abused children called for radical changes . |
| 4 | Her case was heard by a special committee set up by the DoH , following calls for more openness in the NHS . |
| 5 | Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class . |
| 6 | The pair produced two eggs in their eyrie in Haweswater , Cumbria , but experts fear twitchers may have breached an exclusion zone set up by the RSPB . |
| 7 | Many of those who fled across the Danube became graničari ( frontiersmen ) in the military frontier zone set up by the Habsburgs ; others manned fortresses in Dalmatia , combining defence against the Turks in the interior with piracy in the Adriatic . |
| 8 | The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner . |
| 9 | The corollary is obvious : a printing office employing women at low wages to do straight setting could dispense with a number of ordinary linesmen , keeping on only a highly skilled minority of men at rather above normal wages to " service " the type set up by the women . |
| 10 | Duncan Graham was the first boss of the council set up by the Government to decide what should be taught in schools . |
| 11 | Chatichai Choonhaven , the Prime Minister deposed by the military in the February 1991 coup [ see p. 38003 ] , was now allied with the Samakkhi Tham party , which was supported by the National Peace-Keeping Council set up by the military after the coup . |
| 12 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 13 | A major new training initiative set up by the Women 's Unit and the Personnel Services Division could have a profound effect on women 's employment across Europe . |
| 14 | Banbury is certainly a planted town set up by the Bishop of Lincoln between 1123 and 1138 . |
| 15 | Through the condensation set up by the intake of cooler air into a warm-blooded animal , a dolphin receives a supply of fresh non-salt water when breathing . |
| 16 | It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute . |
| 17 | Stephen Owen of the Commission of Resources and the Environment , a body set up by the province 's government to reach a consensus on forestry issues , has called for the area to be designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve , covered by the Biodiversity Treaty . |
| 18 | Klebeck , 86 , had never faced trial for his many alleged crimes in the Alderney camps because the British government had not released relevant classified documents even to the war crimes inquiry set up by the government in 1988 [ see p. 36190 ] . |
| 19 | RENFE , according to one estimate , had seen some forty study commissions by the early 1980s ( Nueva Empresa , no. 193 , 15 October 1983 ) , and a major commission of inquiry set up by the government reported in 1984 ( CEFE 1984 ) . |
| 20 | For its part , West Germany was unhappy about the restrictions that had been placed upon the economic development of much of its heavy industry by the International Ruhr Authority , an organisation set up by the Allies during their military occupation of Germany : the Schuman Plan offered a way to eliminate the Authority while still satisfying West Germany 's neighbours about its intentions . |
| 21 | There was even a Christmas tree set up by the altar . |
| 22 | Patricia Whitaker-Dowling , David Wilcox , Christopher Widnell and Julius Youngner at Pittsburgh University have shown that interferon can prevent viruses from getting inside animal cells , and they believe that this might be the first line of defence set up by the interferon system in response to viral attack ( Proceedings of the U.S . |
| 23 | The first high-level index set up by the software is called the cylinder index in ISAM files , or the seek area index in some ICL 2900 series systems . |
| 24 | Before her conversion , she would doubtless have insisted on waiting for the results of a number of studies being conducted by an international panel on climatic change set up by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme . |
| 25 | Leaving Christian pulling on his boots with the intention of going to assist the gipsies , Seb made his way to the camp set up by the road-makers . |
| 26 | Any approval by Cork County Council will be appealed to the new Appeals Authority set up by the Minister for Local Government ; |
| 27 | They have the bath set up on the floor there , you can reach a hand out and touch it . |
| 28 | A few computers allow the programmer to create his own iterated instructions by providing an " iterated execute " or " repeat " instruction , which operates as follows : Execute the ( perhaps modified ) target instruction Update an index register or the execute modification field Conditionally repeat Again the conditional repeat is based on a count set up by the repeat instruction , or on the setting of a flag by the target instruction . |
| 29 | Even so , The Survivors is less convincing as a portrayal of a dire predicament than as a formal arrangement set up by the figures as they stretch and strain over the raft . |
| 30 | On Feb. 13 , 1989 , President dos Santos dismissed Industry Minister Henrique de Carvalho dos Santos " Onambwe " , responsibility for Industry passing to Domingo das Chagas Simoes Rangel , who had been appointed to the Internal Trade portfolio on Jan. 13 [ see p. 36481 ] , as well as heading a new industrial management commission set up by the President . |