Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In discussing its Strategic Plan for the decade from 1978 , NETRHA set down a number of unachievable objectives , as it was required to do by the DHSS . |
| 2 | It is best made at the last possible moment , although it can be kept warm for a short time in a bowl set over a pan of hot water . |
| 3 | Melt 50g/2oz plain chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of hot water . |
| 4 | Break up the chocolate and place it in a bowl set over a saucepan of hot , but not boiling , water . |
| 5 | The announcement , though , set off a wave of sympathetic outrage that had to be seen , and heard , to be believed . |
| 6 | The Community 's scrapping of all steel quotas in March 1992 set off a surge of eastern exports . |
| 7 | But that performance and the world record before the war inspired one young spectator at the White City , Roger Bannister , who was to run the first four-minute mile nine years later , and set off a string of British world record breakers , Derek Ibbotson , Sebastian Coe , Steve Ovett and Steve Cram . |
| 8 | In particular the assumption of the title of Emperor by Peter I of Russia in 1721 set off a series of complicated controversies ( notably with the Holy Roman Emperors who claimed a monopoly of the imperial title ) which dragged on intermittently for decades . |
| 9 | Indeed , Bradford set up a home for Basque children up Manningham Lane , though it was largely financed by the Trades Council . |
| 10 | That those responsible for the choice of music in our churches take account of the varying tastes and preferences of their congregations and set up a system for congregational feedback ( 526–527 ) . |
| 11 | Local government Acts in 1888 and 1894 set up a system of local authorities that was to remain almost unchanged until the 1970s . |
| 12 | To allay the disquiet which had been caused , the Lord Chancellor of the day , Lord Kilmuir , set up a committee on administrative tribunals and enquiries under the chairmanship of Sir Oliver Franks . |
| 13 | Indeed , in 1976 the PLP set up a committee of eight backbenchers to study how consultation with the Labour Government could be improved . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State Kenneth Baker set up a committee in 1957 , charged with the task of examining A levels ( the Higginson Committee ) . |
| 15 | The 42-year-old millionaire would slash interest rates to three per cent and set up a board of go-ahead businessmen to help industry . |
| 16 | After finishing his apprenticeship he set up a business with this uncle , but it failed . |
| 17 | Early in their existence the HEFCs set up a Review of Higher Education Library Provision , under the chairmanship of Sir Brian Follett , Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University . |
| 18 | Aspdin set up a partnership in 1824 with a neighbour as ‘ patent Portland cement manufacturers ’ , operating from Leeds and Wakefield and later expanded to an agency at Liverpool . |
| 19 | The church also set up a number of permanent rural communities where members of the Christian communities could go for weekend retreats or live there full-time . |
| 20 | They also set up a programme of constant monitoring of the overall environment , both within the mine and for some miles around ’ . |
| 21 | He set up a list of twelve components of skill , including such items as ‘ mental effort ’ , ‘ dexterity ’ , ‘ responsibility ’ , and ‘ decision making ’ , and a set of four broad levels of mechanisation . |
| 22 | To this end , he has bought part of the disused airfield at Breighton , in North Humberside , set up a Clubhouse with excellent facilities , and employed some genuine craftsmen in the workshops to restore several lovely vintage aeroplanes which he just happens to have acquired . |
| 23 | Sir Robert Graham , angered by a spell of imprisonment from which he had escaped into the Highlands , set up a conspiracy with two Stewarts , one of them James 's uncle and the other his own domestic chamberlain . |
| 24 | In its statement finally agreed early on May 9 the Collective State Presidency ( i ) banned for one month the movement of armed formations and civilians other than army and federal police at " crisis flashpoints " in Croatia , and between mainly Serbian areas and other parts of Croatia ; ( ii ) ordered the immediate demobilization of all police reservists in Croatia and the surrender of their weapons ; and ( iii ) set up a commission including Croatian representatives as well as " legitimate representatives " of Serbs from Croatia to investigate the causes of the crisis including " the right of a nation to self-determination including secession " . |
| 25 | In 1839 the government set up an inspectorate to further central supervision of the way the growing state aid was being spent . |
| 26 | The brothers converted part of the building to make a chapel , and set up an industry in old railway huts which produced exquisite ecclesiastical embroideries , many of which can still be seen in local churches . |
| 27 | In 1821 he joined in partnership with John Beckinton of Newcastle and set up an office at 14 Salthouse Lane , next door to the Hull branch of the Bank of England . |
| 28 | Megarry V-C , in Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exports ) v Guinle [ 1979 ] Ch 227 set out a test of four elements which is most helpful for determining whether the information is too widely known to retain the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 29 | In it they state their belief in motivation through the design of work and set out a model for good job design which is reproduced in Figure 3.1 . |
| 30 | This set out a pattern of Soviet policy in Far East and South East Asia in terms of a Soviet policy which sought to weaken the ties between the colonies and the colonial powers through the encouragement of nationalism and by capitalizing on the discontent caused by long periods of ‘ colonial oppression ’ and by disrupting the colonial economies either by armed action or by labour disorders so that the metropolitan powers would be deprived of revenue and resources . |