Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1918 these universities set up a Joint Standing Committee of Convocations , intended to be non-political and non-partisan , the main purpose being the selection , on approved educational grounds , of candidates for the parliamentary constituency . |
| 2 | The investigators set up a bogus export company and contacted more than 130 Hunts . |
| 3 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 4 | However , some management education is provided in technical colleges which are not associated with RMCs and , somewhat concerned lest their work and status be eclipsed by nearby RMCs , they set up a separate pressure group in the form of the United Kingdom Standing Conference of Management Heads ( UKSC ) . |
| 5 | They set up a traditional Scout camp , to give the children a break from the harsh conditions of their day to day existence . |
| 6 | All these -isms together set up a serious fact/belief divide whereby facts are regarded as objective , reliable and unbiased , and values , principles and beliefs as subjective , unreliable and probably biased . |
| 7 | We have now set up a Human Rights Committee , properly structured and managed , with a defined budget . |
| 8 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
| 9 | Set up a proper control system . |
| 10 | Set up a subsidiary planning task to simulate a search for a path starting at N , leading to a better state |
| 11 | As indicated above , we have now set up a Validated Courses Section within the Assessment Department and ( ) is heading this . |
| 12 | Staff set up a special emergency room with phene lines to give out information . |
| 13 | ‘ We set about a vigorous reconstruction programme supported by the ICI Group . |