Example sentences of "setting [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 2 | The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year . |
| 3 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 4 | I note in passing , however , that , when it comes to squandering the nation 's money , I can not think of a better example than the enormous amounts squandered by the Government in setting up the machinery for the administration of the poll tax , which is now to be totally unwound . |
| 5 | Within these coastal poleniers an enormous amount of sea ice could form and then is removed to the north dumping enormous amounts of salt into the shelf water making it very dense and setting up the stage for the deep sinking associated with Antarctic . |
| 6 | The Creative Weaver comprises a perforated base board , with sets of pegs for setting up the design on the board . |
| 7 | Instinct is simply a pre-programmed mental habit , setting up the pattern for the behaviour of a creature . |
| 8 | His concern throughout the crisis had been to keep the principles of the UN Charter in the minds of all the parties involved ; not only Article 1 , setting out the purpose of the UN , the maintenance of international peace and security , but Article VII , which excludes intervention in matters subject to any state 's domestic jurisdiction . |
| 9 | Secondary legislation in the United Kingdom is routinely published with an introductory paragraph indicating the statutory provisions on the basis of which the instrument is adopted and accompanied by an explanatory note setting out the purport of the instrument in plain language . |
| 10 | Each year it has produced a report setting out the state of the education service , and each year Ministers have treated that report as though it were a piece of stinking fish . |
| 11 | SAVE began by writing to the Department of Transport setting out the importance of the park , only to be told that a large number of representations had been made in favour of the proposed route . |