Example sentences of "[adv] set up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In several European countries there were disclosures during November concerning clandestine anti-communist units , apparently set up at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and intended to lie dormant for activation in the event of a communist takeover . |
| 2 | Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 3 | Other computer firms with particularly idiosyncratic names — Acorn , Torch , Camputers and Jupiter Cantab — have also set up in the city . |
| 4 | This hillside defence system was probably set up by the Votadini , a tribe whose continual harassment by the neighbouring Selgovae led it to seek alliance with Rome at a very early stage . |
| 5 | The Purple Airway is temporarily set up over the route covered by a Royal Flight . |
| 6 | A Fish Association was duly set up under the chairmanship of the Duke of Kent . |
| 7 | The judicial commission of inquiry , announced by the Prime Minister , Vere Bird Sr , on April 25 , was duly set up under the chairmanship of a British QC , Louis Blom-Cooper . |
| 8 | Members of the Women 's Patriotic Association — originally set up by the wife of the Chinese army general as a pro-Beijing front — gathered on March 12 . |
| 9 | Communication channels were immediately set up between the site , Melbourne , Port Moresby and London . |
| 10 | Instead of working from home or at the DEA office , Coleman was given a desk at the Eurame Trading Company Ltd. , a DEA/CIA ‘ front ’ newly set up by the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad in a luxury three-bedroomed penthouse apartment down the street from the US Embassy . |
| 11 | First , such a change does not take place overnight among all artists ; and secondly it is very hard to be certain that a given statue from the Acropolis was actually set up before the invasion . |