Example sentences of "setting [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The conference voted by 4,592,000 votes to 1,443,000 to reject a motion advocating the setting up of a working party to consider options for electoral reform .
2 Germany has also resisted the setting up of a unified life assurance market .
3 Langdon indicated that Hodge intended to establish a Korean Non-administrative Cabinet and Legislative Body which , under his supreme authority , would enact requisitions and laws in the period before the setting up of a unified provisional government .
4 However , a Nationalist motion calling for the setting up of a small committee to be responsible for housing allocations was rejected .
5 In the six years since the Mulla Committee 's report , there has been a certain amount of further progress , including increases in the prison budget , some new instructions from the central government to the states , and the setting up of a small policy section within the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider the implementation of the recommendations .
6 The document then put forward three possible options : the setting up of a small central body , along the lines of Model A in the English Green Paper , which would have a majority of its membership from Welsh local authorities ; a Model B type central body which would disburse government funds in Wales and would take from local authority control the colleges providing a significant amount of higher education , including teacher training ; and the direct association in Wales of the solution adopted in England through the setting up of a Welsh sub-committee of the main organization .
7 From today 's disclosures , it would appear that the savings that would come from the setting up of a small number of large authorities will be less than was originally suggested .
8 The setting up of a new form of Ulster Club organization involving paramilitary activity in the wake of the Anglo-Irish accord of 1985 , is an added dimension to the struggle for power within the alliance .
9 In a passage which is bound to be seen as highly controversial in the present situation in East Germany , Sir Leon said : ‘ If Germany 's partners give the impression of being opposed to reunification this will only increase what is at present a small risk : that some in Germany may be tempted to seek reunification on the basis of doing a unilateral deal with the Soviet Union , involving the setting up of a new unified German state outside the Community .
10 The Welsh Rugby Union , meanwhile , have announced the setting up of a new National Development Player Committee ( NDPC ) which will assist senior players of international potential , and also monitor and evaluate more technical and administrative elements associated with the performance of national senior squads .
11 More broadly , Mr Reynolds referred to developments in the funding and expansion of cultural institutions under his department and noted the setting up of a new Department of Arts , Culture and the Gaeltacht .
12 On 5 November France 's culture minister , Jack Lang , announced the setting up of a new multi-disciplinary institute devoted to the teaching of art history , archaeology , cinema , theatre and dance .
13 In return for this anonymity and help with the setting up of a new life , the Legion demanded five years ' service , wherever they chose to send you .
14 Lady Wagner , who spoke at the conference said : ‘ I am extremely disappointed that the minister did not announce the setting up of a new group to take on from where we are now . ’
15 Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness .
16 In turn under the leadership of QC and QC we have sent delegations to the Baltic States , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ( at their request , we hasten to add ) , and have assisted in the setting up of a new bilateral organisation called BELLA ( British Law Association for Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ) .
17 The silver bugle light infantry badge is returning to Hartlepool after 50 years with the setting up of a new army cadet force detachment which is looking for boys and girls aged between 13 and 18 to go along on Monday at 7pm to St James Church Hall , Rossmere Way .
18 In the latter case , the agent can often make a valuable contribution to , say , the setting up of a new overseas subsidiary company , or even become managing director of the subsidiary .
19 Under the banner of industrial democracy various changes have been proposed in the structure of the organisation , decision-making and ownership of companies , involving things such as compulsory councils and co-determination at the shop-floor level , the representation of workers on the board , and most recently ( in Sweden and Holland ) the setting up of a union-controlled wage-earners ' fund by capitalising a percentage of pretax profits , with the newly issued shares being placed in the fund and used to acquire interests in other companies and to supplement wages in the lowest-paid jobs .
20 The result was the setting up of a 16 point Green Plan .
21 This GLEB report focused mainly on the manufacturing aspect of the independent sector and recommended the setting up of a modern plant to make records for the smaller companies .
22 This had led to the setting up of a joint system of financial control .
23 The main points in the communique which was immediately issued included , a ) parallel statements by each government regarding the status of Northern Ireland b ) the setting up of a Council of Ireland c ) the setting up of a joint committee to consider the creation of a law enforcement area covering the whole island d ) consultation on , and coordination of , policing .
24 On Dec. 5 the Arab League Council , after meeting in Cairo , issued a statement expressing " solidarity " with Libya , and calling for the avoidance of any military or economic action against Libya and for the setting up of a joint Arab League-UN committee " to study all the documents connected with the incident " .
25 The Germans , already in the country in large numbers , had seized Rome , and Hitler had ordered the setting up of a political system which would take effective control of the country and also take under its wing any future Fascist administration .
26 The Unitarian minister had established a reading room in Yeovil in 1842 , and in 1849 the Rev F.R. Robertson formed the first Working Men 's Institute at Brighton closely followed by the setting up of a similar Institute in South Shields .
27 In 1978 , the mould was broken with the setting up of a private interdenominational primary school in Belfast , enabled by a special act of Parliament .
28 Enquiries are being made with regard to the setting up of a private nursery .
29 It will go towards the setting up of a north-eastern branch of the charity which arranges holidays for children with terminal illnesses .
30 Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) .
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