Example sentences of "set up [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The latter are legislative committees set up to take the committee stage of a bill and they have to reflect the division of party strength that exists on the floor of the House .
2 All " treaties and agreements " entered into during the Vietnamese occupation must be cancelled , he said , new borders delineated between Cambodia and Vietnam , and special SNC committees set up to control the Phnom Penh adminstration and the police .
3 On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT .
4 Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands .
5 If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so .
6 These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption .
7 The Bowley Committee — set up to review the constitution and the committee structure of the Bar Council .
8 In addition to compensation received under an out of court settlement , as a result of litigation or from insurers , in the case of such terrible incidents as the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , there will usually be special funds set up to assist the suffering .
9 The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ .
10 Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said .
11 In July 1988 , a new organisation , the National Association of Software and Services Company ( Nasscom ) was set up to serve the interests of software sector .
12 Equipped with this rule and with knowledge of what are important events , the animal seems to be well set up to acquire the ability to use initially meaningless environmental cues as predictors of what will happen , and initially haphazard acts as instruments for controlling the environment .
13 Delano was hired as a photographer by the Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) in 1940 , which was set up to document the plight of the displaced farmer and the accomplishments of the Roosevelt administration 's agricultural relocation and land-improvement programs .
14 Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage .
15 Those contrary approaches , contrary calculations and contrary totals , the one nearly twice the other , had only to be set up to illustrate the difficulty of the problems in this case .
16 A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome .
17 On April 3 it was announced that a fund would be set up to complement the introduction with effect from March 22 of a new penal code based on sharia ( Islamic ) law [ see p. 37995 ] .
18 Bright sparks Wyseplant 's new service , Powersafe , has been set up to manage the inspection and testing of electrical installations and equipment used in industry , commerce and public utilities in the UK
19 The " pillar " — not very large — consecrated by the oil is set up to commemorate the vision .
20 An audible ripple of laughter went round the court room as Brown denied vehemently that he had been ‘ set up to take the rap for the footballer ’ .
21 Playgroups were originally set up to fill the gap until the Government started a network of nurseries countrywide .
22 In you review of the 486SX machines you state that ‘ once again it was set up to use the MS DOS device drivers ( HIMEM , MOUSE and SMARTDrive ) , although the ones that come with Windows 3.1 are much better ’ .
23 This emergency centre in Oxford was set up to coordinate the response to just such an incident .
24 In some societies the practical importance of dreams as portents of the future and as phenomena with mysterious healing properties was not only recognized but institutions were set up to exploit the fact .
25 Manfred von Richthofen , president of the West Berlin Federation , said a committee will be set up to examine the possibility of a bid from the city .
26 Manfred von Richthofen , president of the West Berlin Federation , said a committee will be set up to examine the possibility of a bid from the city .
27 Another proposal was that an independent commission would be set up to examine the question of racial discrimination .
28 The committee was set up to examine the principles that should govern GCE A level syllabuses and their assessment .
29 A commission headed by the newly appointed First Deputy Prosecutor General was set up to examine the incident .
30 The Lindop Inquiry was set up to examine the maintenance of standards in the polytechnics and colleges sector of UK higher education .
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