Example sentences of "set up [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Piracy is widespread throughout the developing world , ’ said Sir Roger Elliott , who , in addition to his presidential duties , is chairman of a PA working party set up to explore ways in which copyright can be tailored to the need of the new technologies , in particular electrocopying . |
| 2 | The troupe made the performance in aid of CAF ( Contact-A-Family ) , a registered charity set up to support families with handicapped children . |
| 3 | A POLICE hotline set up to take calls about a rave party in Stafford got two complaints — about the noise from a police helicopter . |
| 4 | Hawick , Selkirk , Galashiels , Peebles , Kelso , Melrose and Innerleithen were the seven original members of an Association set up to promote competition throughout the Borders . |
| 5 | Mr Ken Wood , of Hilton Road , Seamer , near Stokesley , is to run the nursery , set up to reunite badgers with the wild . |
| 6 | It will house a nucleus family of gorillas in its other half and we hope to be able to start a breeding programme and also to collect funds for and publicise the Digit Fund , set up to conserve gorillas in the wild . |
| 7 | Whether it will go ahead will be a test of the new Railtrak authority set up to control investment in the railways after privatisation . |
| 8 | State owned funds — those which manage the Business Expansion Scheme ( Set up in 1983 to encourage investment by private investors in unquoted companies , through tax relief at their marginal rate up to £40,000 in a year ) and the Scottish and Welsh Development Agencies , set up to fund growth in their particular areas . |
| 9 | WWF played an active role , making a statement on its policy on the greenhouse effect and pledging £5,000 to a trust fund set up to facilitate participation by developing countries in the IPCC . |
| 10 | Members of the health authority team set up to give advice on the ‘ physical , psychological , communication and mental health needs ’ of people with learning difficulties are often difficult to contact when support workers want to discuss problems relating to the women . |
| 11 | He was much concerned with strict honesty in business transactions and was closely involved in the agitation that led to the passing of the Prevention of Corruption Act in 1900 : he was subsequently chairman of the Bribery and Secret Commissions Prevention League , set up to give effect to the provisions of the Act . |
| 12 | But Stephen Brookes of the Gulf Support Group , set up to help families of hostages , believes the story . |
| 13 | The ban complied with a request by the head of a judicial commission set up to investigate instances of corruption and abuse perpetrated by the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship and by successor governments . |
| 14 | He was a member of MI5 's fluency committee , set up to investigate allegations of Soviet penetration of MI5 . |
| 15 | The fund , set up to raise money for cancer research and the liver transplant unit at Addenbrooke 's Hospital , Cambridge , now stands at £20,000 . |
| 16 | These new communities brought with them their tradition of culture and art and set up trading relations with Byzantium . |
| 17 | 1967 UN Council for Namibia set up to administer Namibia on behalf of UN until independence ; refused access by South Africa [ see pp. 22637-38 ] . |
| 18 | The independent body set up to hear appeals against exam results said last night the number of complaints has tripled in the past year . |
| 19 | A year ago , they joined Child , a registered self-help charity set up to assist couples in coming to terms with infertility . |
| 20 | Editor , — The working party set up to make recommendations on a national standard of entry into general practice seems to have been unaware of European Community directive 86/457/EEC . |
| 21 | These approvals are the first to come forward under the transitional arrangements the Government set up to cover RECHAR in the 1992–93 financial year . |