Example sentences of "up a system [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water is a major problem in this arrid region , so local technicians funded by Oxfam have set up a system with water from a local thermal spring , which up until now has been too salty to use . |
| 2 | They set up a system of hotel coupons ( 1867 ) , through rail tickets , international ship and rail timetables , and guidebooks , and between 1873 and 1874 they introduced the Circular Note , forerunner of the travellers cheque . |
| 3 | Later , the spectra of other stars were examined , and before the end of the last century astronomers at Harvard College Observatory in the United States had drawn up a system of classification which is still used . |
| 4 | As you do so , try to build up a system of classification , explaining your basis for making distinctions . |
| 5 | Men such as Huxley and Hooker now played a significant role in the creation of the British scientific establishment by building up a system of government support for research and education . |
| 6 | Thus Noel and Jose Parry define professionalism as ‘ a strategy for controlling an occupation in which colleagues set up a system of self-government ’ . |
| 7 | Lack of money and bureaucratic confusion has left a legacy from the Victorian era with the state looking backwards , remodelling ancient buildings and patching up a system of care which is fragmentary , pitifully inadequate and increasingly inadequate to the elderly age group . ’ |
| 8 | The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved . |
| 9 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |