Example sentences of "set up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
2 | In 1981 the government authorised the project in principle and set up the Mediterranean-Dead Sea Company , which delivered a detailed study on engineering , economic and environmental aspects of the whole hydroelectric scheme last year . |
3 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
4 | Scott extended the scope of prisoners ' employment , established the first open prison camp , and set up the Imperial Training School for prison officers at Wakefield , a pioneer effort in public-service training . |
5 | In response to this unrest , the National Advisory Council on Art Education ( NACAE ) and the NCDAD set up the joint Coldstream-Summerson committee to examine the structure of higher art and design education and suggest improvements . |
6 | Other whaling nations recognised the destruction of whale stocks and set up the International Whaling Commission in 1946 to control international whaling , Just when Japan was developing her whaling industry to full commercial efficiency . |
7 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
8 | John Rose set up the famous porcelain factory at Coalport in 1785 , and it became noted for the fine quality of its decoration and lavish gilding . |
9 | Police in Florida believe Magaly Carr , 29 , telephoned father-of-three Mr Bates and set up the fateful meeting where her boyfriend carried out the killing . |
10 | Richard Gay , their teenage stand-off , set up the decisive try as Hull came from 7-4 behind in the closing minutes . |
11 | In 1988 , some time before the USSR began to crumble , Martyn Assirati set up the Russian Wine Company in London and travelled east to see what he could find . |
12 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
13 | The very phrase ‘ the Ulster people ’ refers to those who originally set up the true faith in Ireland and colonized the land accordingly . |
14 | In 1988 McBain set up The Electronic Studio , a technology and business systems specialist . |
15 | He also set up the renowned Creature Shops to develop animatronics for the film and television industries and which recently made the masks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . |
16 | The original nationalizing Act ( Transport Act 1947 ) had in fact set up the British Transport Commission , of which BR was only one part . |
17 | It forbade a number of unfair practices used by employers to block union development , and set up the National Labor Board to sort out problems and act as " umpire " between labour and management . |
18 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
19 | Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s . |
20 | He took his Tutors examinations in both disciplines and he set up the Euro School of Funeral Studies which flourished and gained a name for excellence . |
21 | But it did n't stop him bumping into her every five minutes as she set up the slithering plastic tent , the heaters . |
22 | In early September the CIA informed current employees that they would be permitted to contribute money to a legal defence fund , set up the previous month by a group of retired CIA officers to help pay lawyers ' fees for beleaguered colleagues . |
23 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |
24 | Unfortunately , we often lose sight of this goal and set up the organizational layers in our managerial hierarchies to accommodate pay brackets and facilitate career development instead . |
25 | After considerable lobbying , the Television Act was passed in 1954 and this set up the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) to supervise a federal structure of commercially funded television companies , each serving a different region or market . |
26 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |
27 | And it was in trying for another way that the CIA let in people like Monzer al-Kassar and , without meaning to , set up the whole Lockerbie scenario . |
28 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |