Example sentences of "set up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 2 | Although he showed particular fondness for Jessie , John certainly was not generous to the couple when after the war her husband wanted to set up in the textile business in Newcastle . |
| 3 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 4 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 5 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 6 | The first to arrive , 3 Regiment , Army Air Corps , will set up at the base next month , with the staggered arrivals ending in 1995 when 4 Regiment , also presently based in Germany , settles in with a battalion of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and two Air-Sea Rescue helicopters . |
| 7 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 8 | Like a fairway pitch , I set up with the ball forward in my stance with the clubface square to the target ( photo 2 ) . |
| 9 | Set up with the expertise of committed , professional staff , the Democrat 's weekly sales of over 9,000 makes it one of the fastest growing weekly papers in the British Isles . |
| 10 | Partners in the EuroEDI and Concorde consortia — set up with the purpose of interconnecting disparate Electronic Data Interchange systems — have successfully demonstrated the results of their projects . |
| 11 | Difficulties of accountability have also been created by what are called ‘ regulatory agencies ’ , that is , agencies set up outside the core of government to regulate various aspects of economic and social activity . |
| 12 | They set up at the foot of the first escalator . |
| 13 | ‘ Paramedics would be used , field hospitals set up at the scene if necessary , helicopters from Whitechapel would fly out casualties , ’ added Mr Whitehead who said a triangle of hospitals would deal with the injured and all the plans were agreed by the airport 's consultative committee . |
| 14 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 15 | Most managers want to take commission on any deals they set up for the artist . |
| 16 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 17 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 18 | Calero mentioned that the American revolutionaries too had front companies like those set up under the Enterprise , established in Europe to take in money from France and Spain . |
| 19 | This disclosure requirement , in turn , made possible a recommendation in June 1990 by the Innovation Advisory Board ( set up under the aegis of the Department of Trade and Industry ) that a ‘ UK R&D scoreboard by sectors and companies ’ should be drawn up . |
| 20 | Set up on the initiative of the secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches , the Reverend Frank Chikane , the Independent Board of Inquiry into Informal Repression has investigated five episodes in which the ‘ death squad ’ was involved . |
| 21 | She walked slowly up the street on the shaded side , stepping carefully round the stalls set up on the pavement and the goods displayed by some vendors which were spread out on cloths on the pavement itself . |
| 22 | Some of the earliest shops were situated in London 's busy market streets such as Queen 's Crescent and Chapel Street , with stalls set up on the pavement . |
| 23 | Existing techniques are accurate enough to measure such changes in the Sun 's size directly , and monitoring programmes set up in the wake of these various claims and counter-claims will resolve the issue , one way or another , before the end of the decade . |
| 24 | Paddy Ashdown is definitely going to Hoy , to look at the Hoy Telecottage , one of the community facilities set up in the wake of the H&I Initiative to take advantage of the facilities it offers . |
| 25 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 26 | Many ex-army tradeswomen set up in the brewing trade , opening licensed houses where they could . |
| 27 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 28 | It 's the only one in Worcestershire — other real ale breweries set up in the county during the nineteen eighties have all since closed down . |
| 29 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 30 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |