Example sentences of "[vb past] set up the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society .
2 It was reported on Feb. 6 that a presidential decree of Jan. 29 had set up the Atomic Energy Ministry ( Minatom ) of the Russian Federation .
3 By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant .
4 Together , they had set up the famous soap box .
5 Rourke had set up the whole annoying episode .
6 It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million .
7 My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons .
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