Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , a working party set up to simplify the complex technicalities of the original assessment proposals generated a system which was more intelligible and rational . |
| 2 | During a debate in the Nationalrat on the report of the parliamentary commission set up to investigate the secret files affair , Arnold Koller , Justice and Police Minister , said on March 6 , 1990 , that a new law would be introduced to place the security service under the control of parliament . |
| 3 | Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie , administrator of the Bibliothèque Nationale , has been appointed chairman of an association set up to consider the administrative problems and to determine the aims and contents of the long awaited library , and who the users will be . |
| 4 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 5 | Clutching his head , Umberto set out to rouse the other grooms . |
| 6 | During this period , they also set about rubbishing the British proposals for competing currencies , and for the hard ecu . |
| 7 | In my opinion , they should stop hounding law-abiding citizens and set about catching the obvious culprits , whoever they are . |
| 8 | In the autumn of 1936 Franco set about preparing the political foundations of his " New State " , in anticipation of what he thought was his imminent entry to Madrid . |
| 9 | In 1770/71 Lagrange set about analysing the various methods then known for dealing with the general equations of degrees 2 , 3 , 4 and he found that they all depended on the same general principle ( see Section 5.2 ) . |