Example sentences of "setting up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence Lawson also chaired an ad hoc group of Ministers which led to the setting up of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 2 | The setting up of the Serious Fraud Office was an important development , as were the increased powers of the Department of Trade and Industry under the Financial Services Act 1986 and the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 3 | An early example of the recognition of the residual problem was afforded by the setting up of the Unhealthy Areas Committee by Addison in 1919 . |
| 4 | The setting up of the Working Party on Civil Procedures ( The Heilbron Committee ) was an important development during the year . |
| 5 | Its March 1992 bulletin , though , took a surprisingly simplistic approach to ethnicity and religion , justifying the setting up of the Muslim Parliament by pointing to the racist press coverage it had received . |
| 6 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 7 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 8 | There had been the usual time-consuming , wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies , sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield . |
| 9 | In Nigeria however , the discovery of the Koko dump led to the setting up of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency — a new initiative in environment policing . |
| 10 | This clause , largely unnoticed during the passage of the act , led to the setting up of the controversial Community Action Programme ( CAP ) . |
| 11 | From about 1864 on , much of Marx 's time and energy was spent in connection with the setting up of the international association of working men , the first International . |
| 12 | Thus , at the global scale , the International Council of Scientific Unions ( ICSU ) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project ( IGBP ) to ‘ describe and understand the interactive physical , chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system , the unique environment it provides for life , the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions ’ ( Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986 , quoted in IGBP 1988 ) . |
| 13 | The setting up of the European environment agency has stalled because of a lack of agreement over where its headquarters should be . |
| 14 | The nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) , the Ulster Unionists , the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) and the Alliance Party , i.e. all the province 's constitutional parties , would participate , for the first time since the setting up of the Constitutional Convention in 1975 [ see pp. 27161-63 ] . |
| 15 | The first six paragraphs described events leading to the setting up of the Select Committee and the reasons for the choice of witnesses . |
| 16 | The setting up of the Select Committee to look at the whole under-fives area |
| 17 | The delay effectively hindered the setting up of the American end of the Virgin operation . |
| 18 | The setting up of the secret camp and the training of the men was a blind and a cover to fool Medoc , and people who said lugubriously that Medoc could not be fooled did not know what they were talking about . |
| 19 | The second development in 1985 was the setting up of the Urban Housing Renewal Unit within the Department of the Environment . |
| 20 | The Gay News Defence Campaign may not have won the case for the paper , but it helped the community maintain a sense of strength and it led to the setting up of the Gay Activists Alliance . |
| 21 | Far from being ‘ non-interventionist ’ , in this case Mr Lang has not only acted as promoter of the scheme itself , but also as overseer of the setting up of the public inquiry . |
| 22 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 23 | Some stop-gap funding was provided immediately for British Lion and this was followed , in April 1949 , by the setting up of the National Film Finance Corporation which the Board of Trade provided with a revolving fund of £5 million ( expanded to £6 million in 1950 ) . |
| 24 | Eight years later these considerations did not apparently deter Lord Hailsham ( then Lord Chancellor ) from supporting the setting up of the National Industrial Relations Court ( NIRC ) . |
| 25 | Where the sequence of information is important to the understanding of a given topic ( for instance , the origins of the Unification of Italy or the setting up of the National Governments , 1931–39 ) you must develop a system that clearly but succinctly shows the connections between events and ideas and also pinpoints continuities/discontinuities in a line of development . |
| 26 | The greatest reform in access to health care was the setting up of the National Health Service in 1948 . |
| 27 | Similar thinking lay behind the setting up of the British National Film League in 1921 to ‘ encourage the production and exhibition of British-made films ’ . |