Example sentences of "set up [prep] business " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains .
2 Livewire helps young people aged 16–25 who want to set up in business .
3 Set up in agreement with the Board of Trade and the Department of Social Security , the ER scheme allows new entrepreneurs to set up in business for three months without losing any state benefits .
4 Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital .
5 Private Enterprise THE UNORTHODOX GREEK Why does a European middle manager choose to set up in business in Britain ?
6 For the two students some creative thinking provided the solution — to set up in business of their own .
7 So , too , were a number of producer co-operatives by workpeople determined to set up in business themselves whether , by competing with master manufacturers , to reinforce the effect of a strike ; or to counter a lock-out ; or in response to wage-cuts ; or simply to create jobs .
8 I explained about the shop ; I thought he might give me a loan to set up in business again … .
9 The Start Scheme operates on the basis that financial support is provided to an individual who wishes to set up in business for themselves .
10 After five years , Josiah was ready to set up in business on his own account , and in 1759 he established his own enterprise .
11 The defence counsel , Mark Stewart , said that Forman , a self-employed painter and decorator , had borrowed money from Glasgow loan-sharks to set up in business .
12 ‘ The right type of facilities need to be built in the area before companies can be attracted to set up in business .
13 They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers .
14 Yet at the time , he admits , he saw it merely as a way to travel , learn the ropes and then set up in business on his own account .
15 In one urban area 85 children had been murdered by squads set up by business men who regarded the children as vermin who robbed .
16 The Big Brother of ‘ 1984 ’ will have set up in business , a few years late perhaps , but with effective tabs upon everyone .
17 Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself .
18 YOUNG model makers Kenton Smith and Sarah Szikora have set up in business with cash help and a little inspiration from a 1960s pop record .
19 I HAVE just set up in business as a limited company .
20 J. went off to another station at one point for a two week course on shoe repairing and general leatherwork — not that he was thinking of setting up in business as a cobbler , but figuring that a free training on any practical skill was worth having .
21 If , if you 're s setting up in business as a childminder , not doing it as a , for a friend , for just nominal expense .
22 Setting up in Business
23 Setting up in business , making contracts , arbitration , restraint of trade , negligence , raising money , winding-up a company , etc .
24 We will introduce rebates for small businesses to protect those who are setting up in business or struggling to stay in business .
25 He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good .
26 ‘ In our research , we found disabled people were being discouraged from even thinking about setting up in business , ’ she said .
27 The present tax system was too complicated ; people setting up in business on their own were more or less forced to employ an accountant .
28 A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s .
29 ‘ As a matter of fact , he set up in business for himself — not far away , in Mile End . ’
30 He set up in business as an antique dealer but , according to Herbert Cranko , ‘ seems to have loved his stock more than his customers , often refusing to sell a cherished piece to a disliked buyer ’ .
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