Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The 1987 ( and subsequent ) Pay and Conditions Order set down a clear statutory requirement upon headteachers to consult with the staff of the school . |
2 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
3 | There he set up a small photographic portrait business , and made some early forays into recording ethnic ‘ types ’ and customs . |
4 | On Sept. 21 , Gorbachev set up a Political Consultative Council , to be subordinate to the USSR President . |
5 | ‘ What 's so marvellous , is that these kids who are doing bum jobs , and are said to be idiots , can get themselves organized like this , and set up a fabulous military strategy that goes into battle . ’ |
6 | Until 1858 , when the state set up a new administrative body at Somerset House , the responsibility for proving wills lay with the church . |
7 | The latter piece of legislation , the so-called Wagner Act , further established penalties for employers seeking to prevent unions from organising freely and set up a new federal agency , the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) to ensure its provisions were enforced ( Wallace et al. , 1988 ) . |
8 | On Feb 9 six deputies who had left the PUWP before its dissolution set up a new parliamentary group , the Independent Deputies ' Caucus ( KNP ) . |
9 | Following an address on July 6 to the Council 's Assembly by the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , the first by an East European leader ( see pp. 36821-22 ) , the Council and the Soviet Union set up a joint working group to develop contacts and co-operation which met in September and October . |
10 | This set up a national Poor Law Commission to superintend the system , and formed the parishes into groups known as poor law unions . |
11 | The first part of the act set up a National Industrial Recovery Administration ( NIRA ) . |
12 | The 1944 Education Act set up a national educational system which was locally administered . |
13 | On publication of the Scottish Sports Council 's report into school-aged sport ‘ Laying the Foundations ’ , Michael Forsyth MP , Scottish Office Minister for Sport , requested that Council Chairman Professor Raymond Miquel set up a high level enquiry group to examine the problems of school-aged team sport , and to consider what positive initiatives were needed to assist with the development of team-based sport in Scotland . |
14 | If I were you I 'd go the whole hog and set up a large invertebrate aquarium . |
15 | The law also allowed for foreign observers to be present at elections , and set up a 20-member central election committee . |
16 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
17 | The Combined Studies Board in October of that year set up a special working party to discuss a variety of difficulties being encountered , including resource constraints facing the BA in Music at Huddersfield Polytechnic , acute accommodation difficulties facing the creative arts course at Newcastle Polytechnic , and poor recruitment and various kinds of dissatisfaction at some other institutions . |
18 | In January 1990 the Bonn government set up a special working group to examine the benefits open to refugees from East Germany following widespread discontent . |
19 | They even set up a neat military system of two-man sentry duties , to make sure they stayed alert . |
20 | The government says it will break up state monopolies , liberalise prices , set up an independent central bank and introduce a single rouble exchange rate . |
21 | The Institute set up an independent Financial Reporting Commission last year , which was chaired by Dr Louden Ryan , former governor of the Bank of Ireland , in an attempt to address the expectations gap ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June 1991 , p 14 ) . |
22 | Both originated in a split in the nationalist movement of the early 1920s about the acceptability of the 1921 treaty with Britain that set up the Irish Free State . |
23 | A majority of the 1916 conference called for action to end the war , immediately provoking Hyndman and his supporters , including Jack Jones ( soon to become Labour MP for Silvertown ) and Thorne to depart and set up the National Socialist Party ( NSP ) . |
24 | These new sweeping powers opened the door to planned redevelopment on an extensive scale , an important forerunner to the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , which effectively set up the post-war statutory planning system . |
25 | His father was a French army officer who set up the Moroccan secret service for the king . |
26 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
27 | Nkumbula 's lack of vigour in attacking the Federation , once established , and in supporting participation in the elections for the Legislative Council in 1958 led to the breakaway from the ANC of Kaunda , Simon Kapwepwe and others who set up the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) in 1959 . |
28 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
29 | It is a collection of those books which the early church accepted as written by the apostles themselves , or by their close associates , and which therefore set out the true apostolic faith . |