Example sentences of "[vb past] to set up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 , CRL helped to set up a test facility at the University of Cali in Colombia . |
| 2 | Barney , he had these two sons — tried to set up a song and dance act . |
| 3 | Marcos , it is said , tried to set up a foundation last year to launder - sorry , deposit — the funds to benefit Filipinos , minus a 10 per cent cut for his greedy relatives and 10 per cent for the Vatican . |
| 4 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 5 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 6 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 7 | The Foreign Ministers of member states of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , meeting in Helsinki in March [ see p. 38841 ] , agreed to set up a peace conference in Minsk comprising 10 CSCE members ( Armenia , Azerbaijan , Czechoslovakia , France , Germany , Italy , Russia , Sweden , Turkey and USA ) and with the participation of a delegation from Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 8 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 9 | ‘ We originally agreed to set up a group for mothers whose children were being dealt with in a child protection context , ’ explains the counselling project co-ordinator Hazel Hickson . |
| 10 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 11 | Fokin agreed to set up a commission to look into union grievances . |
| 12 | At this meeting the delegates agreed to set up a steering committee consisting of members from Germany , Holland , Italy and Great Britain , with John Young as Chairman . |
| 13 | Armenia , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agreed to set up the Assembly " as a consultative institution to discuss matters and consider draft documents of common interest " . |
| 14 | The Financial Times of Dec. 12 , 1990 , reported that 90 countries had under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization agreed to set up an emergency response system to deal with oil spillages . |
| 15 | The government in January 1990 agreed to set up an investigation into political murders in the states of Michoacán and Guerrero . |
| 16 | As Welsh coal became available he also purchased this and from his Truro base endeavoured to set up a monopoly of the local fuel business . |
| 17 | But the bed was manoeuvred into the room without incident , the two men departed after various forms had been signed , and Belinda and Tom began to set up the room . |
| 18 | The Department of Health decided to set up a development project to show how co-operative planning between hospital and local authorities could provide a comprehensive modern system of care . |
| 19 | In 1826 , when the members of the British Factory were worried by reports that a daily newspaper was about to be published in Funchal , they decided to set up a find for the protection of any British subject attacked by the newspaper . |
| 20 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 21 | In order to evaluate the most effective ways of meeting the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers , we decided to set up a variety of pilot projects — these will be discussed by Ian Baillie in his talk on the Strathclyde development Fund . |
| 22 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |
| 23 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 24 | The information is already so widely dispersed throughout the chemical literature that Pople and coworkers , realising the immense problems and complexities involved in organising a bibliography , decided to set up a database . |
| 25 | Ex-nurse Allitt was convicted of the crimes at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital , Lincolnshire , last month and the Health Secretary decided to set up a hearing behind closed doors , chaired by Sir Cecil Clothier . |
| 26 | The ruling All-People 's Congress at first resisted growing pressure for the introduction of a multiparty system of government , but the party 's central committee in August 1990 decided to set up a commission to review the Constitution . |
| 27 | When this fell through he decided to set up a family business and , with his two brothers , established a nursery and contracting firm in Windermere . |
| 28 | Others from the group now have their own discussion group but we decided to set up an organisation . ’ |
| 29 | They decided to set up an exhibition showing all aspects of their hobby at a venue where thousands of people would be able to see their exhibits . |
| 30 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |