Example sentences of "a [noun] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The Slovene Domobranci ( or Home Guard ) were a militia set up by the Germans to take part in operations against Tito 's partisans . |
2 | Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning . |
3 | The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner . |
4 | With a spreadsheet set up on a personal computer , this requires very little time to calculate and provides a direct guide to strategies concerned with cost leadership . |
5 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
6 | Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class . |
7 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
8 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
9 | Stephen Owen of the Commission of Resources and the Environment , a body set up by the province 's government to reach a consensus on forestry issues , has called for the area to be designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve , covered by the Biodiversity Treaty . |
10 | It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute . |
11 | David Holmes of Dorling Kindersley fielded the accusation of ‘ unfair play ’ : ‘ The DK Family Library is a business set up as a networking operation , along the lines of Tupperware , ’ he said . |
12 | A few computers allow the programmer to create his own iterated instructions by providing an " iterated execute " or " repeat " instruction , which operates as follows : Execute the ( perhaps modified ) target instruction Update an index register or the execute modification field Conditionally repeat Again the conditional repeat is based on a count set up by the repeat instruction , or on the setting of a flag by the target instruction . |
13 | Not far from Digital a firm set up by the Rehabilitation Institute employing 60 people , some of them handicapped , supply packaging to Digital . |
14 | Mark and Babur 's house is a row set back from the Archway Road , just before suicide bridge . |
15 | We just need to get a letter set up on the stand alone system . |
16 | There was a roadblock set up with no less than three machine-guns . |
17 | In each case the property obtained by the creditor is subject to a trust set up by the testator . |
18 | So he wrote to George Thurstan , an ex-marine who was running the Drake Fellowship ; this was a scheme set up by the Prince in the wake of the inner-city riots , to give young people from those areas adventure training . |
19 | Within two days she had found some information on the Prince 's Trust , which is a scheme set up by the Duke of Cornwall , HRH Prince Charles himself . |
20 | A scheme set up by the Benevolent Fund gave him the chance to learn to fly . |
21 | This positive approach to the challenges offered by the Tunnel is also evident in the activities of Projenor , a company set up by a number of organisations involved in the Channel Tunnel including Eurotunnel , SNCF , local and regional authorities in France , and major financial institutions such as the Belgian Credit Communal and the Midland Bank . |
22 | The advertising is designed to promote solicitors subscribing to Solicitors Financial & Property Services , a company set up by the society last year to help small legal firms win mortgage , pension and insurance business . |
23 | LIVERPOOL-born saxophonist Simon Haram has won national acclaim in an event set up by the Young Concert Artists Trust . |
24 | For its part , West Germany was unhappy about the restrictions that had been placed upon the economic development of much of its heavy industry by the International Ruhr Authority , an organisation set up by the Allies during their military occupation of Germany : the Schuman Plan offered a way to eliminate the Authority while still satisfying West Germany 's neighbours about its intentions . |