Example sentences of "a [noun] set up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 2 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 3 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 4 | The Slovene Domobranci ( or Home Guard ) were a militia set up by the Germans to take part in operations against Tito 's partisans . |
| 5 | On Jan. 17 Farah Aydid seized control of the city 's port from the Achamou , a militia set up by Mahdi Mohammed in August 1991 which had hitherto held aloof from the clan fighting . |
| 6 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 7 | Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth . |
| 8 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 9 | An organisation known as EAST , the Environment of Advanced Software Technology , has a team of 70 engineers ready to provide tools and support for software engineering and development projects : EAST operates out of the offices of SFGL , Boulogne , France , a subsidiary set up by Bull SA , CAP Sesa , Cisi , Sema Group and Steria back in 1985 to develop software engineering solutions for the whole software life-cycle . |
| 10 | The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner . |
| 11 | With a spreadsheet set up on a personal computer , this requires very little time to calculate and provides a direct guide to strategies concerned with cost leadership . |
| 12 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 13 | Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class . |
| 14 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
| 15 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 16 | Additions to a file set up by loading in access frequency order will have a disproportionate effect on file access time ; this is because they will be of at least average activity and often more , as new records tend to be very active , but are loaded into a densely packed file . |
| 17 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 18 | Lee had recently been elected chairman of the Co-opted Resource Centre , a group set up by 21 conservative councillors within Legco following the election of liberal councillors from the United Democrats of Hong Kong in September [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 19 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 20 | Given that a prime reason for investing in science is to boost the nation 's technological performance , where was the discussion about the implications of the government 's plans to privatise the British Technology Group , the descendant of a body set up by Labour itself in the mid-1960s to perform precisely this task ? |
| 21 | The Social Science Research Council ( SSRC ) is a body set up by Royal Charter for the promotion of social science research . |
| 22 | Stephen Owen of the Commission of Resources and the Environment , a body set up by the province 's government to reach a consensus on forestry issues , has called for the area to be designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve , covered by the Biodiversity Treaty . |
| 23 | It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute . |
| 24 | ‘ In my observation , a body set up by government is more likely to face pressure than one established by an industry . ’ |
| 25 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 26 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 27 | David Holmes of Dorling Kindersley fielded the accusation of ‘ unfair play ’ : ‘ The DK Family Library is a business set up as a networking operation , along the lines of Tupperware , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Architect Chris Butt and engineer Tony Ward were approached and a meeting set up in 1988 included them as well as city council and county council officers . |
| 29 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 30 | In the last minute Cawston denied Malcolm Hazlewood from a chance set up by their man Brown . |