Example sentences of "set up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 2 | Set up at the same time as Plowden , with the same terms of reference and some overlap of membership , this report shared Plowden 's philosophy of education , and reached similar general conclusions . |
| 3 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 4 | I had an interview for a job which is a four year term at the — the job is based there but is to run the exams set up of the four major surgical colleges viz London , Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dublin . |
| 5 | Such powers were a necessity for advanced warning , as were the short wavelengths for the much greater precision in the location of targets than was possible with the 11-m waves of the coastal radar stations set up during the late 1930s . |
| 6 | It was suggested earlier that the agencies set up during the nineteenth century to implement social policies were often ad hoc bodies . |
| 7 | The final major institution was to be the Court of Justice , not to be confused with the European Court of Human Rights set up under the 1950 Convention and based in Strasbourg along with the Council of Europe . |
| 8 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference ( set up under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement — see pp. 34070-73 ) held meetings on July 17 , 1990 [ see p. 37624 ] , on Sept. 14 ( when the Conference displayed some optimism towards solving the problem of determining the precise stage at which the Irish government could directly enter the all-party talks ) and on Feb. 1 , 1991 . |
| 10 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 11 | Its comments follow a fresh warning by Sir Gordon Borrie , director-general of Fair Trading , that he will take action against long-term beer supply agreements set up between the big brewers and pubs leased to others . |
| 12 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 13 | It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s . |
| 14 | Set up in the early 1960s , it was a three-year full-time course with four broad areas of specialization ; fine art , graphic design , three-dimensional design , and textiles/fashion . |
| 15 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 16 | This Act abolished the negotiating procedures set up in the 1965 Remuneration of Teachers Act , replacing them until 1990 by authorising the Secretary of State to appoint an interim advisory committee and to impose teachers ' pay and conditions . |
| 17 | Capped employees include those who are members of schemes set up after the 1989 Budget or who joined any final salary scheme after 1 June 1989 . |
| 18 | Several prominent figures refused to take the test , including a former state prosecutor Mohammad Moussavi Khoeniha and a former chief justice Ayatollah Abdelkarim Moussavi Ardebili ; among those who did take it , but failed , were Ayatollah Karrubi and Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali ( the head of the Islamic revolutionary courts set up after the 1979 revolution ) . |
| 19 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 20 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 21 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 22 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 23 | When a review of the health service was set up following the 1987 general election , it was claimed that our kind of public review would be too slow . |
| 24 | In one form — the earliest is usually attributed to the Boston Consulting Group , USA — a 3 × 3 matrix is set up on the two axes as in Figure 2.4 . |
| 25 | I have founded my judgment upon the grounds which I have already expressed , but I do not wish to be understood as thereby negativing the proposition that a defence might be set up on the alternative basis mentioned by Willes J. In my opinion this appeal should be allowed . |
| 26 | turnpikes or toll-bars have been set up on the several great roads of England , beginning at London , and proceeding thro' almost all those dirty deep roads , in the midland counties especially ; at which turnpikes all carriages , droves of cattle , and travellers on horseback are obliged to pay an easy toll … in no place is it thought a burthen … the benefit of a good road abundantly making amends . |
| 27 | Well , the main Control Room is , it 's the centre of all the communications set up on the operational side for the Fire Brigade . |
| 28 | It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows . |
| 29 | The main finishing dais will be set up on the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 30 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |