Example sentences of "is set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sun newspaper is to set up a service called ‘ Hard Views ’ aimed at ‘ cleaning up and improving the standards of journalism in television ’ . |
| 2 | One of her latest projects is to set up a paper-making plant in Nepal . |
| 3 | Mazda is to set up a centre in Belgium to train staff in sales and after-sales service . |
| 4 | The idea is to set up a Telephone Preference Service . |
| 5 | One idea is to set up alternative decision-making processes for ‘ out-of-area ’ operations . |
| 6 | But better still , if you decide you are going to fish the same one or two swims each time , is to set up permanent anchors . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | So Hewlett-Packard 's approach is to set up what amounts to a high-tech classroom in a select group of schools . |
| 9 | So what we are aiming to do is to set up more joint projects , like the one on financial instruments , where we have been working very closely with Canada . |
| 10 | Aim is to set up epilepsy branch |
| 11 | Another aim of the workshop is to set up a group of media trainers and professionals in eastern and southern Africa . |
| 12 | What people can do for themselves is to set up the equivalent of alarm calls : trio wires . |
| 13 | Another possibility , not previously mentioned , is to set up your own Self-Invested Personal Pension ( SIPP ) . |
| 14 | Bulgaria is to set up a joint venture with the Sprint International division of Sprint Corp , Reuter reports from Sofia : Sprint-Bulgaria will build a public packet-switched data network for Bulgarian Telecommunications Co ; Bulgaria has also invited foreign companies to submit tenders for a $230m project to upgrade the present telephone system . |
| 15 | Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training . |
| 16 | Warburton 's next aim is to set up a fund to help users should a particular company go into liquidation . |
| 17 | The aim is to set up a core consortium group by the end of the month . |
| 18 | The purpose of this Act is to set up a legal framework for the conversion of units of the planned economy into companies and a conversion of one company into another form of company and mergers between such companies . |
| 19 | The appropriate response is to set up ways to manage the resistance productively and to ensure that its effects further the organization 's progress in its journey from here to there . |
| 20 | It is to set up an ancillary file with the records in sequential key order and each record consisting only of a count field . |
| 21 | The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page . |
| 22 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 23 | One of the growing practices in modern legislation is to set up supervisory bodies , or ‘ watchdogs ’ , to monitor the effects of the law in society . |
| 24 | Second , the effect of the laws of rhythm in poetry is to set up a tension between two different principles of word combination : syntax , which determines it in ordinary language , and rhythm , which constitutes a second determining principle in poetry . |
| 25 | The ultimate aim is to set up a centre every 50 kilometres . |
| 26 | The DTI is to set up working groups to examine the scope for change in some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 27 | When I talk about implementation of the Maastricht treaty I mean that one of the things that must be done is to set up the arrangements agreed at Maastricht by which member states can be taken to the European Court and punished if they do not carry out obligations that they have assumed . |
| 28 | Her long-term plan is to set up her own business . |
| 29 | THE UN Security Council is to set up an 11-judge international court at The Hague to try people accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia , including murder , rape , ethnic cleansing , torture and other atrocities . |
| 30 | BNFL is to set up a £2.5 million world class research institute in cumbria to undertake environmental and occupational studies . |