Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] set [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business men in my constituency believe that the Maastricht agreement set exactly the right tone for business in the 1990s . |
| 2 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |
| 3 | The decision of the Post Office to set up the British Broadcasting Company in 1922 as a co-operative of radio set manufacturers was an attempt to overcome a series of essentially technical and organizational problems : the need to satisfy set manufacturers by ensuring that all participated in the birth and development of broadcasting , the need to avoid chaos on the airwaves on the American scale , and the need to guarantee an efficient and satisfactory service to all listeners . |
| 4 | This error could arise in two ways : either LIFESPAN is not running , or the ( correct ) user access file to set up the required logical names has not been invoked . |
| 5 | This error could arise in two ways : either LIFESPAN is not running , or the user access file to set up the required logical names has not been invoked . |
| 6 | Prior to running the software , the user should check that LIFESPAN is running with facilities made available , and should then invoke the LIFESPAN user access file to set up the necessary logical names ( see the ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ ) . |
| 7 | Prior to running LIFESPAN PMR , the user should check that LIFESPAN is running with facilities made available , and should then invoke the LIFESPAN user access file to set up the necessary logical names ( see ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ ) . |
| 8 | At Local Government reorganisation in 1974 he was appointed as the Field Officer to set up the innovatory Biological Databank . |
| 9 | Since the hastily-arranged press conference to launch the discussion document setting out the new scheme , the vice-chairman of Suffolk Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group has been pouring over the fine detail of the Ministry documents , and he likes what he reads , calling it ‘ a very exciting package . ’ |
| 10 | A sanitation field manual sets out the different types of low-cost sanitation . |
| 11 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |