Example sentences of "set up an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government have set up an effective system of regulation . |
| 2 | The British government has set up an inter-departmental committee to review the future of forestry in the country . |
| 3 | The threat from Catholics was constantly raised by him , for example , when he linked the failures of foreign policies with the activities of domestic papists ( 1625 ) and raised the bogy of their ‘ swarming ’ in the suburbs , claiming that in his neighbourhood of Covent Garden they outnumbered Protestants by three to one and had set up an autonomous community too strong for ‘ us the justices ’ to ‘ cast out ’ . |
| 4 | The group has also set up an in-house Oracle development facility at a cost of £15,000 . |
| 5 | With the express intent of reducing dependence on South Africa , nine states of southern Africa have set up an economic cooperation association , SADCC . |
| 6 | He also told Miss Slater , then 25 , that he had set up an electrical circuit to the box and if she moved she would be electrocuted . |
| 7 | The Yugoslav republic of Serbia has set up an environmental inspectorate with wide-ranging powers . |
| 8 | Here the organisers have set up an international event where walkers , climbers and people everywhere can do something they enjoy doing and benefit others at the same time . |
| 9 | The American Canoe Association have set up an international pen pal scheme for children . |
| 10 | Has set up an independent enquiry which will show the effect of closure . |
| 11 | In an effort to prevent widespread electricity blackouts , the Thai government has set up an ambitious energy conservation programme . |
| 12 | He has set up an overseas trust for the benefit of his minor children . |
| 13 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 14 | ICI Australia has set up an imaginative scheme to improve industry/teacher links , whereby one of its employees and one teacher are paired in a scientific expedition alongside a distinguished researcher . |
| 15 | CIMA , an original signatory , reports that in the first year it has ‘ set up an informal network to encourage women to stand for office on the Council ’ . |
| 16 | When Glamorgan College of Technology , the future Polytechnic of Wales , was visited by the CNAA in 1967 , it had recently set up an Academic Board , and the visiting party felt that ‘ very belatedly the College is developing towards an academic structure ’ and towards the kind of academic independence now ‘ established for some time in most other Colleges ’ . |
| 17 | The essential appeal in ‘ Sliver ’ is the voyeurism of apartment building owner Zeke Hawkins ( William Baldwin ) who has set up an elaborate video system to monitor what his tenants get up to behind closed doors . |