Example sentences of "set up [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign .
2 The SROs may in fact be subject to ‘ regulatory capture ’ , where an initially independent body set up to police a particular form of business is ‘ captured ’ by the very institutions it is trying to regulate , and becomes a lobby or mouthpiece working on behalf of the industry .
3 The agreement ( i ) conferred land rights on ethnic Indians living in the eastern Amazonian department of Beni , covering the Isiboro Sécure el Iviato National Park and 170,000 hectares of the central forest of Chimanes ; ( ii ) established that a multiparty commission would be set up , composed of government and indigenous Indian representatives and others from " respectable institutions " , to draft a new Law for Indigenous Indians of the East and Amazonia ; ( iii ) established that timber merchants in the central Chimanes forest had to end their operations by Oct. 31 , 1990 , when contracts to cut timber would not be renewed ; and ( iv ) made provision for a further multiparty commission to be set up to police the agreement .
4 The group will concentrate on developing the technology , rather than producing systems it will work closely with the University Research Group set up by ICL a year ago .
5 The Seehandlung organisation , set up by Frederick the Great in 1772 to promote trade along the Prussian reaches of the Vistula , was expanded and reorganised to seek outlets for Prussian goods in Silesia , India , the West Indies , South America , China and the Balkans .
6 A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held .
7 Will he consider setting up in Moscow a unit composed of people from British industry , from the British Government and from the British-Soviet Chamber of Commerce to try to help the Russians receive the aid that is being held from them by the stupidity of their bureaucracy ?
8 In 1754 this system was changed when the Empress Maria Theresa set up in Vienna the Orientalische Akademie to train young men for consular and diplomatic work in the Near East .
9 WFTU split under the pressure of the Cold War in 1949 , when the British TUC and the CIO from the United States ( followed by the AFL ) set up in opposition the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) .
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