Example sentences of "set up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Here she created opportunities for social workers to train in more advanced skills and set up a variety of support and counselling groups .
2 The memorandum also instituted twice-yearly meetings between the UK and Chinese Foreign Secretaries on " matters of mutual concern " , and set up a link between the governor of Hong Kong and the director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office under China 's State Council .
3 Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order .
4 Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana .
5 Indeed , Bradford set up a home for Basque children up Manningham Lane , though it was largely financed by the Trades Council .
6 A year earlier , David Damiani had married Blanche , an 18-year-old Nazareth girl , and set up a home of his own in the Arektenje district of Jaffa .
7 In 1932 she set up a facility at the Settlement Hall in Newport Road , teaching children basic skills , walking , and speech therapy .
8 In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas .
9 It has both acquired computer maintenance firm , Barcelona-based Morsa Mantenimiento de Ordensdores SA , which turned over $2.7m in 1991 and was also part of the Auguas de Barcelona Group , and last year , set up a subsidiary in Portugal , which it called LUMA .
10 During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists .
11 As soon as the Shivah days of deep mourning were over , Mrs Neumann converted her small front parlour into a shop selling basic foodstuffs and domestic items and set up a camp-bed for herself in a corner of the kitchen by the range so as to rent out the two attic rooms to lodgers .
12 His dazzling 10th goal of the season coupled with a 69th-minute opener from Ricky Harris set up a second round tie at home to Port Vale .
13 Fleming set up a culture of the mould , and preserved the plate by fixing it in formalin vapour .
14 The tears came then with the tearing sobs that racked Hari and set up a trembling within her as though she had the ague .
15 So Barry greased a few palms and set up a day at the Foss Island Waterpark in Brandsburton , North Yorkshire .
16 That those responsible for the choice of music in our churches take account of the varying tastes and preferences of their congregations and set up a system for congregational feedback ( 526–527 ) .
17 The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century .
18 Local government Acts in 1888 and 1894 set up a system of local authorities that was to remain almost unchanged until the 1970s .
19 Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others .
20 At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act .
21 Subsequently , the minister set up a committee under Mr David Cairns QC , and including Mr Peter Masefield ( as he then was ) and others , to look into the law and practice of aircraft accident investigation in the UK .
22 In 1987 the CCAB set up a committee under the chairmanship of Sir Ron Dearing to review the accounting standard setting process .
23 After receiving alarmist reports from the heads of both the Second and Third Departments , on 27 February / 11 March 1848 Nicholas set up a committee under Menshikov to recommend ways of limiting the circulation of unwelcome ideas .
24 The Assembly , which met in Prague , Czech and Slovak Federal Republic , 1–11 September , also recommended that CEC set up a committee on communication to consider the communication needs of the churches .
25 To allay the disquiet which had been caused , the Lord Chancellor of the day , Lord Kilmuir , set up a committee on administrative tribunals and enquiries under the chairmanship of Sir Oliver Franks .
26 Meanwhile , on Aug. 24 Gorbachev set up a committee for the interim management of the economy , headed by Silayev with three reformers as his deputies — Arkady Volsky , head of the Scientific Industrial Union , Yuri Luzhkov from Moscow 's city soviet , and Yavlinsky .
27 The local City Council set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the policing arrangements for the visit and complaints were made to the Police Complaints Authority .
28 The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt .
29 It was in response to these pressures , and more particularly its commitment to enhancing equality of opportunity and tackling the problem of underachievement , that the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) set up a committee of enquiry chaired by David Hargreaves .
30 Indeed , in 1976 the PLP set up a committee of eight backbenchers to study how consultation with the Labour Government could be improved .
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