Example sentences of "set up in 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 It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Darlington Wildlife Trust is the latest branch of the Durham trust , which was set up in the Sixties .
7 Ms Ela Robinson , who is in charge of the nursery class at Richmond CE School , is chairman of the National Campaign for Nursery Education , which was set up in the Sixties .
8 But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ .
9 If the source of the sound is standing on a solid object , like a radio on a table , or a washing machine on a floor , the vibrations will be set up in the solid object , and will travel along it , carrying the noise through to the next room , and even to the next house .
10 Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland .
11 A full-time pressure group is likely to be set up in the new year .
12 The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain .
13 When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place .
14 In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting .
15 But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place ,
16 Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two .
17 But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through .
18 Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city .
19 The numerous non-manufacturing subsidiaries ( such as travel agencies , restaurants and computer software firms ) that were set up in the late 1980s are most vulnerable .
20 That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases .
21 There are more than 12 million pictures cataloguing what must be every major news story since the agency was set up in the 30's .
22 Thus , the Alliance for Progress , which gave rise to many agrarian reform programmes , was set up in the early 1960s .
23 The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start .
24 Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo .
25 The village , which is home to 132 orphans , was set up in the early 1980s by Mr Mr John Foster , a teacher at the former Central Comprehensive School in Darlington .
26 LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London .
27 The first , Organic Growers West Wales , was set up in the 1970s to facilitate the supply of produce to meet the growing demand from the supermarkets while supporting its members by guaranteeing markets and providing information on what crops are needed and what prices they will receive for them .
28 So ad hoc multi-council boards , run by officials accountable to nobody in particular , had to be set up in the metropolitan areas after 1985 .
29 A new Validated Courses Section has therefore been set up in the Advanced Courses Unit of the Assessment Department : its initial tasks will be :
30 The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform .
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