Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this charge was later dropped when Kedie 's brother confirmed it was a loan to pay for outstanding bills and to help set up a fish and chip shop in Eastbourne . |
| 2 | These include experiments in programme exchange and plans to set up a regional TV network in time for the 1992 Caribbean Festival of Arts . |
| 3 | He had come from out of town with a fortune , was known to have been a vociferous Bund supporter before the war and had set up a chain of more or less above-board casinos in the districts where gambling was more or less legal . |
| 4 | China has solved the problem of disposing of solid radioactive waste and has set up a complete purifying system for radioactive liquid and gaseous waste , according to participants in a seminar on nuclear science in Beijing . |
| 5 | Hence , it was natural to become preoccupied with climate and to try to set up a geomorphological scheme in which climate dominated erosion and erosion dominated structure and lithology , so that every climatic zone had its characteristic landforms . |
| 6 | Chris Willsden took over the Bay Horse , Hurworth , near Darlington on Monday and hopes to set up a display of the pub 's heritage . |
| 7 | Manufacturers and packagers have arranged to pick up transport wrappings from retailers and have set up a parallel waste-collection scheme , called the ‘ Duales System Deutscheland ’ , ( DSD ) which picks up recyclable packaging from households and returns it to the manufacturers . |
| 8 | Julia cleared the glasses from round the room and prepared to set out the coffee on the drum table beside the chief armchair . |
| 9 | Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts . |
| 10 | Some of the most inspiring work of Chattisgarh Liberation Front has been the formation of a women 's organisation that has set up a popular tribunal to deal with wrongs against women — desertion , rape , abuse . |
| 11 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 12 | SCOTTISH football legislators are giving serious consideration to scrapping relegation this season and agreeing to set up a 14-club Premier Division next term as a temporary measure before returning to a top tier of ten teams in 1994-95 . |
| 13 | In Robb v Green [ 1895 ] 2 QB 315 the defendant , employed by the plaintiff as the manager of his business , surreptitiously copied from the plaintiff 's order book a list of names and addresses of customers with the intention of soliciting them after he had left employment and had set up a similar business on his own . |
| 14 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 15 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |
| 16 | This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill . |
| 17 | He told Waite he had contact with Islamic Jihad and offered to set up a meeting . |
| 18 | The Sports Council has also played an active role in efforts to resolve problems in access to rivers and has set up a liaison group to discuss access agreements for rivers between all interested and affected parties , including of course , canoeists . |
| 19 | The government has accepted Tomlinson 's recommendation for investment in premises and has set up an initiative zone to encourage new ideas . |
| 20 | They have been exacerbated by rumours that ethnic Germans from Soviet Asia are to be moved into the Kaliningrad region and allowed to set up an autonomous republic there . |