Example sentences of "set up as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ? |
| 2 | The reason for this difference is very much because of its funding : set up as a developmental project it needed to test the market for its services without putting too many financial obstacles in the way of the users of the services . |
| 3 | Without resources , unable to earn a living , at the mercy of at least two Federal agencies determined to silence him by one means or another , and now set up as a government-approved target for any stray kook or fanatic , Coleman had to find a more defensible position . |
| 4 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 5 | The company is being set up as a 50:50 joint venture with the French educational publisher Magnard , which has started to move into general trade publishing with its recent acquisitions of the New Age publisher Dervy and the children 's and general academic imprint Vuibert . |
| 6 | A British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) television programme , Panorama , broadcast on Nov. 18 , suggested that Waite had been set up as a front man in the arms for hostages deal and helped gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the captors . |
| 7 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 8 | Todd soon set up as a rival next door , a firm which became Hudswell , Clarke & Co . |
| 9 | The departure of occupying forces was recommended and a new commission , the UN Commission on Korea ( UNCOK ) , was set up as a permanent body charged with helping to attain unification . |
| 10 | Operation Gemini was set up as a high profile battle against criminals . |
| 11 | AA was set up as a monthly hardcopy abstracts journal in 1954 and an online database was introduced in 1986 containing material from 1980 to date , giving easy access to abstracts spanning the discipline of analytical chemistry . |
| 12 | The Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported on Nov. 23 that Aliyev had accepted election as leader of a newly formed political party , Yeni Azerbaijan ( New Azerbaijan ) , set up as a constructive opposition . |
| 13 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |
| 14 | In 1917 Griffiths set up as a consulting chemical engineer in the City of London , a career which he pursued with increasing success until his death . |
| 15 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 16 | Soon after Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979 she disbanded the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , set up as a permanent body by the Labour government in 1974 to report periodically on changes in distribution trends . |