Example sentences of "setting up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 1 , 1989 , Kadhafi issued a decree setting up the General Committee for Defence , which would be responsible for organizing " the armed people " and would replace the Armed Forces General Command . |
| 2 | Both InsP 3 and DAG have been implicated in setting up the dorso-ventral axis in Xenopus embryos . |
| 3 | The acknowledged annual implementation costs referred to earlier were running at almost double the £220m estimated for setting up the internal market . |
| 4 | John helped us to fix it , setting up the outside aerial with those little white pot things with holes in . |
| 5 | Substitutions played a big part in setting up the amazing finale that produced three goals in the final five minutes when both defences looked wide open . |
| 6 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |
| 7 | and also er setting up the first assignment for you . |
| 8 | Here he pursued his special interest in the surgery of inflammatory bowel disease , setting up the first stoma care clinic for patients who had had ileostomies , a form of colostomy . |
| 9 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 10 | Pierre Encreve , a professor of linguistics , has been charged with setting up the new foundation , which will serve to fulfill Andre Chastel 's 1983 commitment to found an institute for the history of art and culture , on the lines of London 's Courtauld Institute . |
| 11 | No doubt Julius Reuter would have found setting up the famous news agency far easier if he had one to bash out his stories on . ’ |
| 12 | be appointed with responsibility for setting up the district-wide programme . |
| 13 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 14 | Dutta , 28 , told the jury he received £20,000 for setting up the front company of Rasiklal & Sons and providing letterheads and invoices . |
| 15 | No I think it is the basic part of he agreement setting up the original superannuation scheme . |
| 16 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 17 | All the others before it will have hierarchical actions , each setting up the subsidiary search which was solved by the following rule . |
| 18 | At 55 he could claim a distinguished record of philanthropic and public service which included setting up the Royal Army Education Corps . |
| 19 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 20 | Mr Cossiga is particularly sensitive on one score : his own part , as junior minister of defence , in setting up the secret counter-insurgency network known as Gladio . |
| 21 | A major part in setting up the Czartoryski Foundation , and in most of the other similar attempts , has been played by an eminence grise familiar to Western art circles , namely the London art dealer Andrew Ciechanowiecki . |
| 22 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 23 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 24 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 25 | ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association . |
| 26 | The principal effort to date has been directed to setting up the operational structure , preparing marketing material , and general business development , including joint ventures with partners in industry . |
| 27 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 28 | Odinga , who resigned as Kenya 's Vice-President in 1966 , told a press conference that the NDP would seek formal registration and the repeal of provisions in the national Constitution setting up the single party state . |
| 29 | Such a compelling clash would also put the gloss on the remarkable atmosphere which was generated during Saturday 's Royal Bank international with Wales , Scotland 's 20-0 victory setting up the tantalising finale to the season . |
| 30 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |