Example sentences of "set up [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first should consist of short courses for teachers brought about by expanding the teachers ' centres set up for the Nuffield mathematics and science projects , and should include a one-term secondment in every seven years . |
| 2 | Replacing the old structure which had been closely linked to the CPCz , the new Confederation of Czechoslovak Trade Unions was immediately joined by over 30 unions — both restructured existing unions and new ones set up since the November revolution . |
| 3 | Set up under the Bonn Convention on migratory species , the agreement obliges its members — Belgium , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Sweden and the UK — to protect bats in the various ways that bats can be protected : finding out where they are and conserving their habitats , studying them , controlling pesticides and stopping people from killing them . |
| 4 | About half the companies set up in the UK over the last 10 years are no longer with us . |
| 5 | Britain had sunk vast capital sums into the military installations set up in the Suez Canal Zone and at Alexandria to serve the British campaigns in the Mediterranean during the Second World War . |
| 6 | Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) chronicles the breakdown of a community of nuns set up in the Himalayas , riven by inner conflicts and pulled apart by the intrusion of romantic figures from outside . |
| 7 | The Spanish system is modelled on those set up in the U.S. ( Indemnity Act of 1975 ) and the U.K. ( National Indemnity act of 1980 ) . |