Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] set [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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1 THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended .
2 And she is also supporting vets who have set up a MASH-style medical unit for injured horses .
3 Recently , Iris had taken an interest in a group of young artists who had set up a studio in a converted barn in Lower Benbury .
4 At the seminar we had a business who wanted to set up a fund to provide the artistic and cultural er facilities for these developments .
5 Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles .
6 Q I plan to set up a tank for Tanganyikan cichlids .
7 A health visitor who helped set up a therapy centre for sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis has been named as Britain 's most caring person .
8 Quite a number of endangered buildings have been saved by local people who have set up a building preservation trust , acquired the building , restored it and sometimes resold it .
9 A GROUP of travelling people who has set up a temporary encampment near the Co Down village of Ardglass have called on the local council to provide a permanent site .
10 During her years as team manager she had set up a good system for running the team , organising training camps and equipment sponsors and felt that her energy could now be better spent on developing the sport at grass-root level .
11 By the time the studio came to make The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) , about a village 's attempt to preserve their branch line against nasty entrepreneurs who have set up a bus service , gentle anarchy has given way to nostalgia for Olde England .
12 For users who want to set up a client/server network , the 486/T has all the features of the 486/M range , up to 64Mb of RAM and eight expansion slots .
13 By announcing investigations all over Britain it had set up a series of confrontations with the public .
14 Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training .
15 In some ways , though , Nick — as he insisted people call him — lived in the shadow of his father Alec , a renowned pacifist who had set up a Chair of Peace Studies at Bradford University on the sensible grounds that everywhere else seemed to study war .
16 ‘ Look — the next time you want to set up a surveillance in London , do remember that we 're here to help .
17 Many time we have set up a tank containing large and heavy items as part of the decor , only to find that the undergravel filter has either collapsed flat or broken in half .
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