Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’
32 If I were you I 'd go the whole hog and set up a large invertebrate aquarium .
33 In 1981 the government authorised the project in principle and set up the Mediterranean-Dead Sea Company , which delivered a detailed study on engineering , economic and environmental aspects of the whole hydroelectric scheme last year .
34 Unfortunately , we often lose sight of this goal and set up the organizational layers in our managerial hierarchies to accommodate pay brackets and facilitate career development instead .
35 This introduced a new currency and set out the necessary steps of raising taxes , cutting public spending , selling state monopolies , keeping wage increases realistic and generally enlivening Argentina 's corporatist state .
36 In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange .
37 Local opinion denied their involvement in terrorism , and John Hume , local SDLP MP , persuaded his party to demand an official inquiry , failing which it would withdraw from Stormont and set up an alternative assembly …
38 Japanese handpainted pictures adorn the walls and set off the elegant porcelain figurines , while the walnut dining table is from Hong Kong .
39 The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary .
40 And in 9 months , local people raised £600,000 and set up a charitable trust to run the hospital .
41 At the height of the Anglo Irish agreement , McMurdo severed his links with the Conservative Party and set up an ill-fated Scottish Unionist Party .
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