Example sentences of "set up [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Councils were supposed to set up sites for industrial and domestic wastes ; the Baldonnell site was to marshal other unsuitable wastes . |
2 | These include technical specifications which hinder or prevent trade in goods ; rules and regulations governing services which hinder non-domestic companies from trading across frontiers ; discriminatory public procurement rules which limit tendering for government contracts to domestic companies , and legal obstacles faced by foreign companies seeking to set up subsidiaries in other member states . |
3 | The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 , which had placed barriers between commercial and investment banking , would be repealed in order to permit well-capitalized banks to set up affiliates in other sectors of the financial areas . |
4 | The Government is promising to review the laws that have enabled tens of thousands of new age hippies to set up camp on common land . |
5 | At one time , politicians said that , with data processing , firms would be able to set up offices in remote areas of France' well away from Paris . |
6 | The allied forces first moved into northern Iraq on April 17 , following an announcement by Bush on April 16 reversing his administration 's policy of non-intervention and committing US troops to set up encampments in northern Iraq to ensure the safety of Kurdish refugees and co-ordinate relief supplies . |
7 | Sadly , however , when psychologists set up games of Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma between real humans , nearly all players succumb to envy and therefore do relatively poorly in terms of money . |
8 | We set up experiments on purified lymphocytes in test tubes to see if nutrients available on one side of a filter would provoke lymphocytes on the other side to wriggle their way through the membrane in that direction . |
9 | Yesterday set up conditions for Milky Way , he wrote . |
10 | Some claim that Disney should have set up shop in sunny Spain rather than chilly Paris . |
11 | He gives talks and shows videos to various organisations and sets up stall at open days . |
12 | The relativist often sets up standards of mutual understanding which are unrealistically high , and when we fail to reach them claims that understanding is impossible . |
13 | Besides the intermediate stage of setting up protectorates over local political units , there was considerable open interference in the affairs of some formally independent countries . |
14 | But as long as he is setting up things for other people , that 's fine by me . ’ |
15 | Papinian 's doubts , therefore , are not about the validity of setting up trusts in indirect words , but about the use to which the testator is putting these words . |
16 | Nevertheless , Balcon did take practical measures of his own to develop more technically sophisticated films , by setting up productions in German studios , and working with European technicians whose superiority to their British counterparts was recognized . |
17 | The work in setting up sanctuaries for threatened chimps began when she was asked by the American ambassador in Burundi to design a conservation plan . |
18 | More recently , the Department has commissioned an awareness campaign whose major aims are : ensuring everyone who needs to know about EMC does so ; ensuring that UK industry is well equipped with information to tackle the directive ; setting up mechanisms for British industry to acquire the necessary technical know-how ; helping industry to implement EMC measures with minimum cost and disruption ; and finally , promoting the positive aspects of competitive advantage in Europe as well as explaining the pitfalls of non-compliance . |
19 | They could not grasp the value of setting up refuges for Asian women and to these men consulting with the community always meant consulting with other men . |
20 | Soviet spokesmen accused ‘ NATO circles ’ of distorting the idea of non-alignment through relegating ‘ to the number of the ‘ non-aligned ’ states those few newly free countries whose leaders are presently … regarded as ‘ friends of the West ’ and share the concept of the ‘ strategy of a united front ’ , that is are in favour of setting up alliances with imperialist powers , first of all the United States ’ . |
21 | The ‘ beware ’ is aimed most urgently at women , the chosen workforce of the multinational corporations who have begun setting up shop in Western ‘ enterprise zones ’ . |
22 | The first test consisted of setting up portfolios of equally-weighted stocks in the seven main macroeconomic sectors in the American economy . |
23 | We will publish later this year new proposals for the inspection of social work in England , setting up arrangements for systematic independent inspection of all care services and every local authority social services department . |
24 | As an assistant you will probably gather information , draft press releases , make up media invitation lists , search out information , set up meetings with outside specialists and consultants , deliver information to the media ( here is a chance to chat and get to know some faces in the media world ) . |
25 | To test the appropriateness of the model by empirical study of data from leading international companies in the same or related manufacturing sectors and set up comparisons with consumer-orientated companies ( e.g. electronics , electrical goods ) . |