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 | The course content was broadly along the lines first recommended in 1981 by the Working Party on Minority Community Languages in School , set up at the Second Assembly of the National Congress on Languages in Education : the fourth volume of NCLE Papers and Reports available from the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and research ( 1984 ) reproduces the proposal in full . |
| 7 | The programme entitled " Socialism , Democracy , Progress " , written by Gorbachev and his aide , Georgii Shakhnazarov , after drafting by a commission set up at the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , unequivocally condemned Stalinism , and committed the party to forming a " controlled market economy " ( including the principle of private ownership ) , and to converting the Soviet Union into a " democratic federation of sovereign republics " , thereby recognizing " the principle of independence of the republican parties included in the CPSU " . |
| 8 | These authorities are presided over by the National Water Council , set up at the same time to be a central co-ordinating body to give advice on major matters of policy ( Times , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Although the Channel Tunnel Company set up during the 1880s survived the abandonment of the project , the pro-tunnel lobby had little success over the next 40 years despite a rash of Bills in Parliament and an inquiry by the Committee of Imperial defence in 1913 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even so , Britain has made an unusually bad fist of the regulatory structure set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act ; the outcome has been cumbersome and ineffective . |
| 15 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Green 's own views carried a good deal of influence within another " extension movement " , the " settlements " , set up from the 1880s in London 's East End and other urban areas . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tories opposed the new credit system set up in the 1690s not because they objected to this type of economic enterprise , but because the benefits to be accrued from it largely passed them by . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All processing and refining of mine output is now carried out in South Africa and its management vested in Matthey Rustenburg Refiners ( MRR ) , a company set up in the 1960's by Johnson Matthey and RPM . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Wages councils , set up in the early 1900s , have no role to play in the 1990s , ministers argue . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The museum , set up in the 1780s by his great-great-great-grandmother Izabela , was the first didactically historical museum in Europe ( both the famous ‘ Lady with an Ermine ’ by Leonardo that starred in the National Gallery of Washington 's recent ‘ Circa 1492 ’ exhibition and the remarkable Rembrandt landscape were collected for their historical associations rather than their artistic merit ) . |
| 29 | In the Ixcán region of Quiché province , the army has permitted the re-establishment of co-operatives first set up in the 1970s . |
| 30 | The Child Poverty Action Group , a pressure group set up in the 1960s , urged governments to deal with this problem by increasing family allowances . |