Example sentences of "the [noun pl] set up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 2 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 3 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 4 | It is scarcely feasible for the communes to set up the apparatus to assess local household incomes ; this is a matter that is best left to the republics and provinces . |
| 5 | It seems necessary to conclude that in his view the words set up no trust . |
| 6 | The words set up an echo in Lorton 's mind : he remembered Sue 's death , and the doctor saying , She ca n't tell us what the problem was now , Mr Lorton . |
| 7 | His first tasks were to erect fortifications , to intrigue to prevent the Arabs from uniting to expel the intruder , and to use the Jews to set up a highly efficient intelligence network . |
| 8 | The exiles set up a medical school at Jundishapur , south of modern Teheran , where their arcane and esoteric formulae were stolen by the Arabs during the early conquests of Islam . |
| 9 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 10 | The investigators set up a bogus export company and contacted more than 130 Hunts . |
| 11 | The Russians , fighting desperately to hold back the German invaders , called on the Allies to set up a " second front " in Western Europe by invading France . |
| 12 | This , as has been said , is particularly true of the moves to set up an unaccountable Central Bank . |
| 13 | The great success of the Junior School prompted the Governors to set up a Preparatory Department so that boys could be admitted at the age of 5 . |
| 14 | She 'd seen him earlier , talking to one of the men setting up the car ramps on the far side of the field . |
| 15 | Against the opposition of respectable male co-operators the women set up a number of successful shops of this kind . |
| 16 | The women set up a project to make cheap , home-built latrines with local materials . |
| 17 | 15 army trucks arrived and the soldiers set up an ambush to try and kill us all . |
| 18 | According to the Constitution , the treaties , including the clauses setting up the League , had to be agreed by a two-thirds majority in the Senate . |
| 19 | The motive for Nepomuk 's canonisation appears to have been an attempt by the Jesuits to set up an alternative national hero to the heretical Hus . |
| 20 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |