Example sentences of "set up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only rarely , therefore , can we identify examples of agencies set up explicitly to circumvent problems of this kind . |
| 2 | Many go to establishments set up especially to deal with British national tastes in food , drink , and entertainment . |
| 3 | Of some of the other developments outlined in the Treaty of Rome , a European Investment Bank , based in Luxembourg , had been set up immediately to provide capital for the future balanced development of the Community . |
| 4 | A new international laboratory might be set up elsewhere to pursue related physics with different machines . |
| 5 | A Cabinet committee , expected to be chaired by the Prime Minister , will be set up soon to look at the broadest possible scope of environmental policy , taking in road traffic , housing , agriculture , the rural economy , energy , and industrial development , as well as the obvious ‘ green ’ areas of policy such as planning , waste disposal and pollution . |
| 6 | When it opened Tendring and Colchester were recognised blackspots for teenage pregnancies and the clinic was set up expressly to reduce the number of gymslip mums . |
| 7 | The position was even worse in countries like Tanzania , where SOEs were set up primarily to replace imports but worsened the trade balance . |
| 8 | Clearinghouses were set up primarily to overcome the isolation of individual practitioners within their own national boundaries . |
| 9 | The centre 's been set up specially to help people like Anita . |
| 10 | In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 11 | We consider the rationale and the manner of the legal profession 's projection of an image of altruism and focus upon one legal service , the duty solicitor scheme , which was set up ostensibly to serve the community . |
| 12 | Application clusters can be set up permanently to meet individual needs . |
| 13 | According to tradition , it was founded by Joshua at the time of the miraculous crossing of the river , and twelve sacred stones were set up there to commemorate the event ( Josh. |
| 14 | There are now two active groups of doctors and a group for nurses which were set up specifically to oppose the use of animals in medical research on the grounds that it is unscientific . |
| 15 | For the untrained , keeping tabs on this type of equipment , both technically and administratively , can be difficult , but Powersafe has been set up specifically to manage the inspection and testing of electrical installations and equipment used in industry , commerce and public utilities . |
| 16 | A recent study by Brown and his colleagues ( 1986b ) in Walthamstow , North London , was set up specifically to explore the intervening links between childhood parental loss and adult depression . |
| 17 | Gordon Fenton , the Bank 's Community Affairs Manager said , ‘ Our Community Fund was set up specifically to help skilled and committed bodies , both professional and voluntary , to make even more of their skills and enthusiasm . |
| 18 | This unit had been set up originally to refine the art of specific writing for Television ; either by seeking out works of literature suitable for adaption , or by commissioning new material and applying it to the ‘ TV-writing art form ’ . |
| 19 | Concern for this issue has recently surfaced in studies that were indeed set up originally to try to isolate the factors that determine which among a selected sample of children are likely later in life to have a schizophrenic breakdown . |
| 20 | In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property . |
| 21 | A restoration lab was set up nearby to treat the bronzes immediately they came out of the water to prevent deterioration . |
| 22 | Within the year Thomas had moved into a new company , Macdonald Raintree , which was partly owned by BPC and by Raintree in the US and which had been set up mainly to sell rights and coeditions in Raintree output in Europe . |
| 23 | A European Community fund , set up effectively to bribe boat people to go and Hanoi to take them back , has secured less than half the £80 million it needs . |