Example sentences of "[vb past] set up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |
| 2 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 3 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 4 | The women , supporters of Women Against Pit Closures , had set up a heavily-smoking brazier outside the office 's main entrance . |
| 5 | The women , supporters of Women Against Pit Closures , had set up a heavily-smoking brazier outside the office 's main entrance . |
| 6 | During her years as team manager she had set up a good system for running the team , organising training camps and equipment sponsors and felt that her energy could now be better spent on developing the sport at grass-root level . |
| 7 | Since leaving in March , he had set up a private school in St. Peter 's Parsonage , with about sixty pupils from his old school . |
| 8 | Chen Chang-wen , secretary-general of the SEF , and Tang Shubei , deputy director of the TAO , agreed that formal talks on the principle of " one China " would be held early in 1992 , as soon as China had set up a non-governmental counterpart to the SEF . |
| 9 | In Robb v Green [ 1895 ] 2 QB 315 the defendant , employed by the plaintiff as the manager of his business , surreptitiously copied from the plaintiff 's order book a list of names and addresses of customers with the intention of soliciting them after he had left employment and had set up a similar business on his own . |
| 10 | England 's batsmen , led by Robin Smith , had set up a perfect platform to build the huge total that would have put Sri Lanka under great pressure . |
| 11 | The Government of Ireland Act 1920 had set up a regional parliament and government . |
| 12 | His party argued the Tories had set up a Economic Development Forum but had not put enough money in . |
| 13 | On Nov. 18 Libya announced that it had set up a judicial inquiry to investigate the allegations . |
| 14 | Arthur had set up a rural-type training settlement on an island in the middle of the Kokine lake , just outside the university of Rangoon . |
| 15 | Yousefi had set up a false bank account in the name of Momen Garawand at the Darlington branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 16 | But Mancini 's basic point — that Gloucester had set up a fake attack on himself as an excuse to deal with Hastings — seems eminently plausible . |
| 17 | But Mancini 's basic point — that Gloucester had set up a fake attack on himself as an excuse to deal with Hastings — seems eminently plausible . |
| 18 | Information Minister Alex Akinyele , describing the report as " totally false " , said that the government had set up a special fund to receive oil earnings in excess of budgeted levels . |
| 19 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |