Example sentences of "set up [art] 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 .
6 The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 .
7 Either House may set up a committee of inquiry into any matter it wishes , as the House of Commons chose to do on the occasion of the Aberfan disaster of 1966 .
8 It had set up a Committee for Research Degrees in 1965 , as well as a study group on research degrees to look at policy for this activity , and had developed research degree relationships with industrial firms and research establishments .
9 The USA had a role to play in this process , he said , which might involve setting up a Committee of Foreign Ministers within the framework of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) .
10 Subsequently , the minister set up a committee under Mr David Cairns QC , and including Mr Peter Masefield ( as he then was ) and others , to look into the law and practice of aircraft accident investigation in the UK .
11 In 1987 the CCAB set up a committee under the chairmanship of Sir Ron Dearing to review the accounting standard setting process .
12 After receiving alarmist reports from the heads of both the Second and Third Departments , on 27 February / 11 March 1848 Nicholas set up a committee under Menshikov to recommend ways of limiting the circulation of unwelcome ideas .
13 The Assembly , which met in Prague , Czech and Slovak Federal Republic , 1–11 September , also recommended that CEC set up a committee on communication to consider the communication needs of the churches .
14 To allay the disquiet which had been caused , the Lord Chancellor of the day , Lord Kilmuir , set up a committee on administrative tribunals and enquiries under the chairmanship of Sir Oliver Franks .
15 Meanwhile , on Aug. 24 Gorbachev set up a committee for the interim management of the economy , headed by Silayev with three reformers as his deputies — Arkady Volsky , head of the Scientific Industrial Union , Yuri Luzhkov from Moscow 's city soviet , and Yavlinsky .
16 The local City Council set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the policing arrangements for the visit and complaints were made to the Police Complaints Authority .
17 The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt .
18 It was in response to these pressures , and more particularly its commitment to enhancing equality of opportunity and tackling the problem of underachievement , that the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) set up a committee of enquiry chaired by David Hargreaves .
19 Indeed , in 1976 the PLP set up a committee of eight backbenchers to study how consultation with the Labour Government could be improved .
20 The Secretary of State Kenneth Baker set up a committee in 1957 , charged with the task of examining A levels ( the Higginson Committee ) .
21 White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices .
22 In 1904 Tansley and William Smith set up the Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation , later known as the British Vegetation Committee .
23 June , the non-Communist nations in Europe , set up the Committee of European Co-operation in order to draft a European recovery programme , and in August , the first ‘ Marshall Aid ’ arrived in Greece , followed by military advisers to assist in the Civil War against Communism .
24 The process of information-gathering which ensued was certainly no more radical than that sanctioned by Nicholas I when he set up the Committee of 6 December 1826 .
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