Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They immediately had to dive for cover , however , as the Germans had set up a pair of machine guns in front of the doors behind hastily piled crates . |
| 2 | The ACPS had set up a sub-committee , under the chairmanship of Baroness Wootton of Abinger , to carry out the review . |
| 3 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 4 | The DSS believes that NICs are due on such payments ( the Faculty has set out the reasons why it does not agree ) , but comments that it is possible to deal with matters rather differently by the so-called ‘ statutory method ’ . |
| 5 | This document , written by Hornby , emphasized that the Council had set up a procedure for dealing with proposals which began with a detailed scrutiny of documents from the college and involved painstaking work by the subject boards , so that the Council ‘ might establish the standards of its degrees ’ . |
| 6 | The council has set up a special investigation team to try and track down the copiers . |
| 7 | In some polytechnics and colleges students can proceed from a two-year Diploma in Higher Education to a first degree , and the CNAA has set up a Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme ( CATS ) which allows students to accumulate credits not only from a variety of higher education institutions but from accredited employer-based and experiential learning . |
| 8 | The committee have set up a working party to look into the proposal . |
| 9 | Marcel Berlins writes : ‘ I 'm pleased to see that the Bar has set up a committee to monitor and research into sex discrimination in the profession . ’ |
| 10 | Here the organisers have set up an international event where walkers , climbers and people everywhere can do something they enjoy doing and benefit others at the same time . |
| 11 | Information Minister Alex Akinyele , describing the report as " totally false " , said that the government had set up a special fund to receive oil earnings in excess of budgeted levels . |
| 12 | The Government have set up an effective system of regulation . |
| 13 | In privatising water , the government has set up a regulatory regime biased towards raising quality rather than controlling costs — and this has played straight into the hands of the commission . |
| 14 | In response , the government has set up a judicial inquiry , which is to consider submissions over two months , before a final decision by Minerals and Energy Minister George Bartlett . |
| 15 | The Government has set up a task force to survey mental health services over the next two years . |
| 16 | The Cubans hope to make their own spare parts and replacements ; lest that should fail , the state has set up a breeding-station for draft oxen . |
| 17 | In Wales the WRFU has set up an international players ' trust fund . |
| 18 | To help investigate gill net use and bird deaths elsewhere around the coast , the Society has set up a confidential phone line . |
| 19 | The prevarication has set back the effort six months , said Sarfas , and OSF/1 for the Alphas will now emerge first , early next year . |
| 20 | He says ; The police have set up an incident room with four teams of officers working on the case . |
| 21 | Paul O'Grady remains chairman of Micro Focus Plc and Brian Reynolds a director , but the Coboller has set up a four-man management committee to act as its chief executive : the committee will consist of John Beggs , who has become president of worldwide sales after the creation of a single sales force , Paul Adams , the new president of products and business development , Bob Connors , who becomes chief operating officer and Ron Forbes , who remains chief finance and administrative officer , the company said . |
| 22 | Mr Tammames said : ‘ The Socialists have set up a client state where the pensioners , the people on the dole , are all sucking sustenance through government tubes . |
| 23 | Environmental groups and small timber traders from around the world have set up a Forest Stewardship Council , charged with deciding what constitutes " sustainable " tropical forestry . |
| 24 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |
| 25 | The CID had set up an incident room at sub-divisional headquarters . |
| 26 | The company has set up a job search unit to help employees find other jobs and hopes part of the reduction will be achieved through natural wastage . |
| 27 | Inspired by Talleyrand , the founder of the Dynasty had set up a number of high sounding offices such as Vice Grand Elector and Vice Constable , and to these gothic absurdities were added the ceremonies of the lever and coucher , echoes of the ancien régime . |
| 28 | The RoSPA and the RAC have set up a 24-hour hotline on 0891 445922 to allow drivers to test their knowledge of the Highway Code . |
| 29 | Nearer the cottage the soldiers had set up an infestation grid , the dull mauve light attracting anything small and winged from the surrounding meadows . |
| 30 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |