Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawick , Selkirk , Galashiels , Peebles , Kelso , Melrose and Innerleithen were the seven original members of an Association set up to promote competition throughout the Borders . |
| 2 | Mr Ken Wood , of Hilton Road , Seamer , near Stokesley , is to run the nursery , set up to reunite badgers with the wild . |
| 3 | It will house a nucleus family of gorillas in its other half and we hope to be able to start a breeding programme and also to collect funds for and publicise the Digit Fund , set up to conserve gorillas in the wild . |
| 4 | Whether it will go ahead will be a test of the new Railtrak authority set up to control investment in the railways after privatisation . |
| 5 | Members of the health authority team set up to give advice on the ‘ physical , psychological , communication and mental health needs ’ of people with learning difficulties are often difficult to contact when support workers want to discuss problems relating to the women . |
| 6 | He was much concerned with strict honesty in business transactions and was closely involved in the agitation that led to the passing of the Prevention of Corruption Act in 1900 : he was subsequently chairman of the Bribery and Secret Commissions Prevention League , set up to give effect to the provisions of the Act . |
| 7 | These approvals are the first to come forward under the transitional arrangements the Government set up to cover RECHAR in the 1992–93 financial year . |
| 8 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |
| 9 | Sharpe and Newton ( 1984 ) , for example , set out to identify differences between the spending patterns of urban councils ( county boroughs ) in the 1960s on the basis of party political control , and by the use of extensive statistical manipulation they succeeded in doing so . |
| 10 | For Jeanne Favret-Saada ( 1980 ) , who set out to study witchcraft in the French Bocage , the only means of moving in on the discourse she hoped to understand was to become part of it . |
| 11 | He was keen for more business to be taken at full Cabinet level and set about dismantling parts of the Attlee machine . |
| 12 | As the relentless publicity machinery of pop set about building Kylie into the perfectly-packaged star , however , the cerebral was taking a back seat to the sensational . |