Example sentences of "set [adv] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Let me try and set down the opposing points of view . |
2 | Business men in my constituency believe that the Maastricht agreement set exactly the right tone for business in the 1990s . |
3 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
4 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
5 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
6 | This set up the next cycle by index arbitrageurs , and so on . |
7 | The very phrase ‘ the Ulster people ’ refers to those who originally set up the true faith in Ireland and colonized the land accordingly . |
8 | Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s . |
9 | He took his Tutors examinations in both disciplines and he set up the Euro School of Funeral Studies which flourished and gained a name for excellence . |
10 | In early September the CIA informed current employees that they would be permitted to contribute money to a legal defence fund , set up the previous month by a group of retired CIA officers to help pay lawyers ' fees for beleaguered colleagues . |
11 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |
12 | Unfortunately , we often lose sight of this goal and set up the organizational layers in our managerial hierarchies to accommodate pay brackets and facilitate career development instead . |
13 | HENRY WHARTON set up the biggest fight in Yorkshire for years when he successfully defended his Commonwealth super-middleweight title by stopping Australian Rod Carr in eight rounds at Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday . |
14 | This introduced a new currency and set out the necessary steps of raising taxes , cutting public spending , selling state monopolies , keeping wage increases realistic and generally enlivening Argentina 's corporatist state . |
15 | Before leaving the ground floor , make your notes and sketches and set out the approximate costs of making good the defects and of any necessary alterations . |
16 | In seeking to make these aims operational , the plan set out the general characteristics of the proposed polytechnic : it was to be a ‘ broadly-based institution catering for a wide range of higher education for the over-18 age groups ’ , giving priority to sandwich courses , but providing courses other than degree courses for those able to benefit from ‘ advanced courses of a specialist nature ’ . |
17 | In his speech , the Prime Minister set out the weak position from which he negotiates on economic and monetary union . |
18 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
19 | Thatcher was reported as wanting the CSCE to set out the conditions for free elections , provide observers to monitor their observance , define the rule of law and human rights , set out the essential principles for sound legal systems and help to resolve minority rights issues . |
20 | I thank the Minister for the way in which he introduced the debate and set out the technical reasons for the order . |
21 | There was none at all in the subsequent Financial Services Bill and the accompanying paper from the SIB , Regulation of Investment Business , which simply set out the proposed clauses to be enacted and the regulatory framework to be adopted without any attempt at justification . |
22 | Deepening the divisions in the West German government over EMU , the president of the Bundesbank , Karl Otto Pöhl , on Sept. 19 set out the stringent requirements for economic and monetary integration envisaged by the Bundesbank . |
23 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |
24 | He also set about the forced emancipation of the Jews . |
25 | The team that ended the 1960s was dumped , and Ripley-Rust and Pybus set about the daunting task of building a squad capable of winning promotion when the club 's League career got underway again . |
26 | Kalchu , Nara and Kāli fetched the wooden shovels and , standing thigh-high in the snow , set about the long work of clearing the roof . |
27 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |