Example sentences of "[vb past] to set [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 2 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 3 | ‘ We originally agreed to set up a group for mothers whose children were being dealt with in a child protection context , ’ explains the counselling project co-ordinator Hazel Hickson . |
| 4 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 5 | As Welsh coal became available he also purchased this and from his Truro base endeavoured to set up a monopoly of the local fuel business . |
| 6 | In 1826 , when the members of the British Factory were worried by reports that a daily newspaper was about to be published in Funchal , they decided to set up a find for the protection of any British subject attacked by the newspaper . |
| 7 | In order to evaluate the most effective ways of meeting the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers , we decided to set up a variety of pilot projects — these will be discussed by Ian Baillie in his talk on the Strathclyde development Fund . |
| 8 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |
| 9 | Ex-nurse Allitt was convicted of the crimes at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital , Lincolnshire , last month and the Health Secretary decided to set up a hearing behind closed doors , chaired by Sir Cecil Clothier . |
| 10 | Adenauer in 1955 proceeded to set up a Ministry of Defence and to create a new Bundeswehr , whose first members joined up in November . |
| 11 | A survey of 17 major organisations that had shown interest in joining TOPP , but had later decided not to go ahead , found that although many were still enthusiastic and hoped to set up a scheme at some time in the future , several of them saw cost as a major deterrent . |
| 12 | Consequently , she was again in financial difficulties in 1617 , when she unsuccessfully attempted to set up a school in St Giles in the Fields for the education of children of the nobility . |
| 13 | Two Noblemen of Scotland , Macdonald of the Isles , and the Thane of Cawdor , conspired to set up a rebellion in the Highlands to draw the King 's army to quell it , whilst Sweno , the Norwegian King , appeared with his own army , and started to march across Scotland . |
| 14 | He was kissing her again , but with urgency now , the way his lips moved over hers calculated to set up a craving for more . |
| 15 | He wanted to set up a new-enterprise in New York , a law firm advising immigrants . |