Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a committee [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoon session there was an equally irritable wrangle over a proposal to adopt a law on compliance with the constitution , and to set up a committee for the purpose . |
| 2 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 3 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 4 | Although the CNAA was not now to oversee a rolling programme of promotions to the ‘ university club ’ , how much autonomy the new polytechnics would want and acquire — from their local authorities and the CNAA — was to be a feature of debate from the creation of the first polytechnics , and from the decision to set up a Committee of Directors of Polytechnics in December 1969 and its formal establishment in April 1970 . |
| 5 | Under this Resolution , it was agreed to set up a Committee on Cultural Affairs , and that the Commission should implement actions decided on by the Council that were to be implemented at Community level . |