Example sentences of "set up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old cheese presses which had lain dusty in the stable loft were brought down with difficulty on account of their immense weight and set up on the flagged floor . |
| 2 | This nest set up on the flat lands beyond the power stations on the south east coast will provide the evidence to Bill and his bird watching colleagues It 's not only the owls that fly at night , waders will feed at any time , but the rising tide will force them to leave the mud flats day or night |
| 3 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough-based Marktrace International said yesterday that MPL was a separate company , set up for the Ghanaian project only . |
| 5 | SO&sub2 ; and soot are measured at 418 sites ( the descendants of thousands set up for the Clean Air Acts ) but , prior to criticism from the House of Commons Environment Committee in 1984 , knowledge of other pollutants was threadbare . |
| 6 | A turnout of 99.5 per cent was reported by the ITAR-TASS news agency in elections held from Nov. 24 to Dec. 7 for 50 of the 60 members of the Khalk Maslakhaty ( People 's Council ) , set up as the supreme body of state power under the Turkmen Constitution adopted in May , and comprising one member from each electoral district . |
| 7 | THE investor protection system set up under the Financial Services Act is creaking under the strain , less than three years after it swung into operation . |
| 8 | It discusses the regulatory system set up under the Financial Services Act 1986 ( FSA or the Act ) , and the position of futures under that regime . |
| 9 | The Stock Exchange is party to the central compensation fund set up under the Financial Services Act , in which losses due to fraud or the collapse of an institution of 100 per cent up to £30 000 and 90 per cent of losses up to £20 000 are recompensed , and then nothing after that . |
| 10 | The Rules Sub-Committee , set up after the Extraordinary General Meeting in 1983 , and comprising Basil Peacock , Jim McDonald ( Captain ) , Alec Stevens and ‘ the Club 's solicitor as needs be ’ , produced two draft sets of rules , the crucial difference between them being the definition of ‘ member with full voting rights ’ , i.e. seven-day male only ? or all other categories ? ( e.g. social , ladies and five-day ) . |
| 11 | To this end we will be working closely with Music Aid , a group of volunteers from the music world who set up after the tragic Ethiopian famine in the mid nineteen eighties . |
| 12 | Union officials held an hour-long meeting with Mr Clarke at the Home Office , urging him to retain the pay formula set up after the bitter nine-week strike in 1977/78 . |
| 13 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 14 | Petitions were fastened to a statue of Julius Caesar set up in the Roman Forum , and appeals for justice were made to statues of emperors in later antiquity . |
| 15 | In the first half of 1858 gentry committees like those which the Nazimov Rescript set up in the north-western provinces came into being throughout the European part of the empire . |
| 16 | The ILEA 's Alternative Use of Resources ( AUR ) Scheme , set up in the early 1970s , gave schools limited control over staffing and other parts of their budget . |
| 17 | Wages councils , set up in the early 1900s , have no role to play in the 1990s , ministers argue . |
| 18 | Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday . |
| 19 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |