Example sentences of "set [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement by the Serbian Environment Minister , Pavle Todorovic , said that the Serbian government has also decided to set aside 1 per cent from every investment in " dirty " technology in an environmental protection fund . |
| 2 | The government of British Columbia is to set aside 1 million hectares of the watershed of the Tatshenshini and Alsek rivers as a provincial park . |
| 3 | Government departments were ordered to set aside 10 per cent of their budget to be released only with presidential approval ; spending on all non-infrastructure projects , except schools , hospitals and disaster relief , would be deferred . |
| 4 | Our illustrious and perfectly formed editor has agreed to set aside one page of the magazine for prayer requests concerning missionaries and missionary endeavour . |
| 5 | We are asking all Amnesty supporters , from groups to individuals , trade unionists , students and religious bodies , to set aside one weekend/day/evening in the coming 12 months and … |
| 6 | I think what we will do , erm certainly a lot of concern was expressed at the last meeting that this er forum should should die er but I do n't think it will I think it is very simple , to set aside one meeting a year , devote it to cycles and invite the same people who have coming from the party . |
| 7 | The terms of the IMF agreement , which immediately unlocked US$325 million in loans from the World Bank , required the Argentine government to set aside one-quarter of the money for use in future commercial bank debt reduction agreements , and to accept an ambitious target of a primary budget surplus equivalent to 3.5 per cent of GDP , or $4,900 million , in the year to June 1992 , out of which to pay interest on domestic and foreign debts . |
| 8 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 9 | The technique in the experiments is to set up two photo-detectors on either side of the calcium or mercury source , preceded immediately by polarisers that allow through only those photons polarised in one direction ( Figure 1a ) . |
| 10 | England centre Jeremy Guscott sliced through the slush to set up two unconverted second-half tries for wing Adedayo Adebayo and lock Nigel Redman . |
| 11 | It 's a delightful , unique location and the Campaign for Real Ale plan to set up two big bars at Chappel and Walkes Colne Station where beer festival entry will allow a browse of the railway memorabilia ( during daylight hours ) . |
| 12 | But when ABC Television reported in March 1987 that the USSR and Iran had reached an agreement ‘ to set up two super-secret Soviet electronic reconnaissance stations in Iranian territory ’ to monitor American naval ships in the Persian Gulf Tass rejected this report as ‘ utterly groundless ’ . |
| 13 | On Nov. 18 , the Croatian population of the republic had voted to set up two Croatian communities [ for establishment of Serbian Autonomous Regions see p. 38513 ] . |
| 14 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |
| 15 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 16 | Roel Pieper 's 10-month-old promise to set up 10 international joint ventures for Unix Systems Labs ( UX No 380 ) is reportedly bearing more fruit . |
| 17 | He wanted to set up seventy-five gatherings a year ! |
| 18 | As we went to press , DEC was getting ready to set up nine new business units as part of its reorganization struggle , some of them reportedly headed by leaders brought in from the outside and others have yet to be chosen . |
| 19 | About ten months later , in a report to an International Congress at Paris it was stated that the Spanish Medical Aid Committee had helped to set up nineteen hospitals throughout Republican Spain , some front-line hospitals and seventy-two ambulances . |
| 20 | When CNP started trading in 1981 , it was initially planned to set up 12 downstream units using CNP 's cracked products , but in the event only one , EPSI , was created . |
| 21 | In the 1989 statement on Government expenditure they announced that the Home Office was to receive yet another increase in money to enable it to build two extra prisons , to set up 30 day centres for parole on probation , to recruit 300 more police officers in provincial forces , to employ an additional 1,300 civilians in the police forces and to make the Immigration and Nationality Department more efficient . |
| 22 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 23 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |
| 24 | The rest of this chapter will set down three broad and differing perspectives on what should be the form of a new constitution for Britain . |
| 25 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 26 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Suspected drug traffickers set off 12 bombs , injuring 35 people , in the latest round of violence here linked to the country 's cocaine war , authorities said . |
| 27 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 28 | Set aside one cake for the top and thinly spread the rest with jam . |
| 29 | Set aside four orange segments , for decorating the dessert before serving . |
| 30 | Set aside 15 minutes a week for a mini manicure . |