Example sentences of "set up [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The council , after hearing reports of commissions set up to canvass popular opinion , also firmly rejected a return to a multiparty system .
2 Oracles set up to confer green rites on business-priests are booming .
3 So far the great bulk of archives set up to handle this material focus on collecting datasets created by research projects ( Doorn 1993 ; Lievesley 1993 ; Marker 1993 ; Nemeth 1993 ) .
4 MEN-HUNGRY Californians are flocking to enrol in special aerobics classes set up to beat flabby backsides — after a survey showed that many guys rated a pert behind as highly as a pretty face .
5 Bans had to be imposed on mackerel and herring fishing to allow stocks to recover , and quota systems set up to prevent serious depletion of other fish .
6 Observing that the public interest had fixed almost entirely on the co-operatives set up to rescue failed enterprises organised as companies in the conventional form , the Agency commented first that it was questionable how far those enterprises when reorganised , satisfied co-operative principles ; and next that the recent closure of KME might have revived doubts about the effectiveness for industrial ventures of the co-operative form .
7 The first is built on formal procedures and standardisation to ensure a proper response to every set of circumstances while the second , a more recent form in large organisations involves temporary structures set up to solve specific detachment of individuals from the aims of the organisation as a whole and their consequent apathy .
8 A number of major reports were produced in this way ( see Chapter 3 ) , but no CACE has been constituted since 1967 , and later government reports have been issued by committees set up to consider particular issues .
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