Example sentences of "[verb] [be] set [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Next thing to do was to set up a form .
3 What you 're doing is setting up a resistance here for a perfectly adequate site in an area where we desperately need a site for people , and what you offer us as a compensation , something in the future in terms of a bypass and two trees coming down , and on the basis of that we 're supposed to stop the whole deal .
4 When it comes to commercial sites it 's entirely different business , because what you 're in essence doing is setting up a business park .
5 You see , the way the Copts work is that if they decide on something , like a campaign of trouble-making and agitation , the first thing they do is set up an organization .
6 All they do is set up an obstacle course for the surfer . ’
7 Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them .
8 Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile .
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