Example sentences of "set [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The grinning waiter set down a cup of coffee by my hand . |
2 | A small explosion resulted which detonated a store of hand grenades , which in turn set off a number of flamethrower fuel containers . |
3 | Here she created opportunities for social workers to train in more advanced skills and set up a variety of support and counselling groups . |
4 | Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana . |
5 | His dazzling 10th goal of the season coupled with a 69th-minute opener from Ricky Harris set up a second round tie at home to Port Vale . |
6 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
7 | The Assembly , which met in Prague , Czech and Slovak Federal Republic , 1–11 September , also recommended that CEC set up a committee on communication to consider the communication needs of the churches . |
8 | It was in response to these pressures , and more particularly its commitment to enhancing equality of opportunity and tackling the problem of underachievement , that the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) set up a committee of enquiry chaired by David Hargreaves . |
9 | The local City Council set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the policing arrangements for the visit and complaints were made to the Police Complaints Authority . |
10 | The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt . |
11 | In March 1918 the Unionist leaders agreed to open up negotiations with Lloyd George 's supporters and set up a subcommittee of Law , Long . |
12 | But Eagles sub Hugh Waddell set up a try for winger Mark Gamson after 58 minutes , and loose forward Tony Farrell went in from 20 yards to confirm their superiority . |
13 | In order to compensate firms for the loss of their retention rights , the federal government set up a scheme of export subsidies . |
14 | The first small groups to be provided with pensions were the lower-paid naval warrant officers in 1672 , and soon afterwards customs officers ; while an Act of 1749 set up a scheme for master merchant mariners . |
15 | This Act set up a Board of Education to supervise the education system . |
16 | In 1793 Britain set up a Board of Agriculture to promote the growing of potatoes to counter Napoleon 's threat to starve this country into submission . |
17 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
18 | It is up to them whether they move in with Mum and Dad or set up a caravan on site until the work is finished . |
19 | Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London . |
20 | But it set up a pattern of eating which would take Odette years to break . |
21 | They could have published a White Paper or set up a commission of inquiry . |
22 | A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime . |
23 | He would attempt the impossible and set up an airline from scratch in three months . |
24 | The Warnock Report ( 1978 ) put under-fives high on the educational agenda and set out a blueprint for assessment of needs ; notification by one statutory service to others ( in particular an obligation on DHAs to notify to LEAs , cf 1981 Education Act , Section 10 ) ; liaison between services and with parents ; key personnel ( e.g. its recommendations for ‘ named person ’ ) . |
25 | Franca set out a jug of water and a tumbler , while Pat found the whiskey . |
26 | In Chapter 5 of that book , entitled ‘ The Problem of the Empirical Base ’ , he set out an account of observation and observation statements that took account of the fact that infallible observation statements are not given directly through sensory perceptions . |