Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a [adj] operation " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the firm can choose to set up a local operation and simply ‘ clone ’ the domestic business in the foreign country . |
| 3 | This illustrated the urgency of many commando and other wartime activities when the time needed to set up a special operation was almost impossibly short , but the official records do not show the efforts behind the scenes in preparing the ground . |
| 4 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 5 | Darius Guppy — who was best man at the 1989 wedding of Viscount Althorp , now Earl Spencer — set up a superbly-planned operation culminating in a bogus jewel robbery at a New York hotel , it was claimed . |
| 6 | In addition it 's set up a European operation , headquartered in England at Bagshot , Surrey , under Andrew Field , a Sun UK veteran . |
| 7 | 1968 : MCA sets up a British operation . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , IXI is also in the process of setting up a European operation , which is being headed by Steven Sampson as general manager . |