Example sentences of "set up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 2 | A few people have tried to set up as independent ironers but we seem to be reluctant to pay someone £4 an hour to iron . |
| 3 | Also issued on Oct. 26 , a decree granted foreign investors ( individual or corporate ) the right to set up on Soviet soil a 100 per cent foreign-owned enterprise , or to buy a shareholding in existing Soviet enterprises . |
| 4 | Small firms have traditionally found it difficult to set up in rural areas , despite the need for job creation and economic diversification , and this Circular is designed to help them by , for example , relaxing the conditions over the re-use of redundant agricultural buildings . |
| 5 | As we have seen , some prior harmonization of standards of authorization and supervision will be necessary but , those limited conditions having been met , banks will then be free to set up in other states . |
| 6 | And national or local government may offer subsidies for businesses to set up in favoured areas . |
| 7 | The HIDB and the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno are both examples of intermediate institutions set up with intersectoral mandates to assist disadvantaged areas . |
| 8 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 9 | Separate spheres of responsibility can be identified , and control systems set up for junior management , and so controls , performance measurement and accountability are better . |
| 10 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 11 | From the end of the seventeenth century , turnpike trusts set up under private acts of parliament began to appear . |
| 12 | It was a government word used , for example , in the 1975 slogan ‘ Socialism and freedom are one ! ’ ( later to become ‘ Islam , socialism and freedom are one ! ’ ) , painted on walls and on the triumphal arches set up over main roads . |
| 13 | Among printers ' mementoes , one should not forget the special examples , in the nature of things not easy to find because of the infrequency of the occasions , produced by presses set up on frozen rivers , such as the Thames and Severn . |
| 14 | Contemporary concerns with the dangers posed to the rights of individuals by incorrect information are reflected in the laws and institutions set up on national levels to protect individuals against incorrect data and the implications that might arise from any errors . |
| 15 | ( First Edition ) Two senior council officers were suspended on full pay pending an inquiry into a chain of consultancy companies they set up on public health , waste management , food hygiene and urban renewal . |
| 16 | The government of the FRG declares that the memorials set up on German soil which are dedicated to Soviet victims of the [ Second World ] War and of the tyranny shall be respected and placed under the protection of German laws . |
| 17 | Throughout the period a high percentage of workers , especially in the newly developed areas and the many enterprises set up in rural areas , were born into peasant families . |
| 18 | The move came amidst concern about the high levels of bad debt carried by the Nigerian banking system , particularly that held by some of the smaller banks set up in recent years . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got four old Vickers guns set up in strategic positions , so neither group should be able to get in . |
| 20 | Windfarms are groups of 100ft high wind turbines set up in exposed areas to create electric power . |
| 21 | Even so , by the end of April 20,000 Kurdish refugees a day were returning to havens set up in northern Iraq by Western troops — not without some hesitation , as when Kurdish peshmerga declared the haven at Zakho unsafe because there were still Iraqi police in the town . |
| 22 | It seems clear from the surviving images that emperors took interest in and approved the form of their portraits , particularly those that would be seen by many of their subjects on coins and statues set up in public places . |
| 23 | The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman . |
| 24 | The organisation will consist of executive and advisory boards and ad hoc committees and task forces will be set up for specific projects . |
| 25 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 26 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 27 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 28 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 29 | Persuading them to adhere to the doctrine of the Church of England , to persevere in that good old way ; … for having set up for Primitive Christianity , he counted Popery as well as Puritanism arrant novelty . |
| 30 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |