Example sentences of "by setting [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill would give the service a ‘ new lease of life ’ and put it in good shape to provide an even better service by setting up a new system of financial management and creating new incentives to efficiency . |
| 2 | After building the 2-bit latch , connect the battery and check operation by setting up a binary number such as 10 . |
| 3 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 4 | In news programmes , quality and range were sought by setting up a distinct company , ITN , which was jointly owned by the other companies and supplied news for the whole channel , and later for Channel 4 . |
| 5 | In the United States , he had begun by setting up a small press which published German writers in translation , books which kept the Germany he knew alive . |
| 6 | One city has responded by setting up a twenty-four hour response team to help people whose lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours . |
| 7 | France 's Carrefour did just that by setting up a hard-discount subsidiary , Erteco , in the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | Dennis and his friend Tommy want to stop this by setting up a National Centre where doctors and medical scientists can undertake research to prevent premature birth . |
| 9 | Some are now attempting to combat the isolation they feel by setting up a national body to represent their interests . |
| 10 | Before they lost office the Conservatives also responded to the growing evidence on the extent of poverty , and the inadequacies of existing measures , by setting up a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1905 . |
| 11 | By setting up a nuclear energy community at the outset , it was believed that it could provide an important impetus towards closer integration . |
| 12 | Coastguards have slammed youths who sparked a rescue alert by setting off a red flare yesterday between Cullercoats and Tynemouth . |