Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How schools set about developing the statutory orders in the context of whole — curriculum policies represents a significant challenge for leadership and , not the least in primary schools , the strategies adopted by headteachers . |
| 2 | Bale Out by Ian Wright sets out to present a general background of historical information on the parachute and its evolution . |
| 3 | Other research sets out to explain a social phenomenon . |
| 4 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 5 | The special EP2 Task Force set up to oversee the huge job combined people from both Sellafield and Risley sites . |
| 6 | Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie , administrator of the Bibliothèque Nationale , has been appointed chairman of an association set up to consider the administrative problems and to determine the aims and contents of the long awaited library , and who the users will be . |
| 7 | The test sets out to assess a wide range of grammatical understanding , including grammatical categories such as noun , verb and adjective ; negatives ; singular and plural personal pronouns ; reversible active verbs ; personal pronouns ; singular and plural noun inflections ; comparative adjectives ; reversible passive sentences ; ‘ in'/ ‘ on ’ ; post-modified subjects ; ‘ X but not Y ’ constructions ; ‘ above'/ ‘ below ’ ; ‘ not only but also ’ constructions ; the relative clause ; ‘ neither X nor Y ’ and embedded sentences . |
| 8 | A healthy contribution to company profits is coming from Bonded Developments Ltd. , a subsidiary set up to sell the Bonded Machine Worldwide . |
| 9 | In the fourth part of Israel : A Nation Is Born ( C4 ) , Dr Abba Eban was celebrating a 25-year-old victory , the Six Day War , in which a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt 's President Nasser set out to destroy the Jewish state and got a bloody nose from the Israeli pre-emptive strike . |
| 10 | Their demands followed the arrest of Aristide Sokambi , chair of a co-ordinating committee set up to convene a national conference . |
| 11 | Kent 's interests during the passage of the Channel Tunnel Bill were also served by the Joint Consultative Committee set up following a formal commitment by the government given in the February 1986 White Paper . |
| 12 | This committee set about establishing a small residential home for old people , the second of its kind in the country , and , by July 1942 , thanks largely to her drive , West Town House in Bristol was opened . |
| 13 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 14 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 15 | Bigoted detective sergeant Robert Spallen sets out to bring a notorious IRA terrorist to book . |
| 16 | A PRESSURE group set up to oppose a new waste disposal plant planned for Wirral yesterday won vital support in its campaign . |
| 17 | As the Saturday evening went on and everyone made use of the food and drinks on site , the Leisure Promotions team set about arranging the well-known Night Event . |
| 18 | The company is at best ambivalent about the Network Printing Alliance however — yet another industry body set up to define a standard protocol , this time for distributed local network connected printers and personal computers . |
| 19 | Other important measures included ( i ) tax relief for a range of environmental measures ( such as those to combat land degradation ) ; ( ii ) increased tax relief for small businesses and oil exploration ; ( iii ) allocation of additional funds for industrial restructuring ; and ( iv ) increased funds for the Australian Securities Commission , a new body set up to regulate the corporate sector . |
| 20 | But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria . |
| 21 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 22 | At about half past six Stephen set out to take the crinkle-crankle path up the fell , the way he had brought the policemen three weeks before . |
| 23 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |
| 24 | Over the next 13 years , the regulations set out to achieve a 70 per cent cut in hydrocarbon emissions . |
| 25 | Begun under the Labour government of Mr David Lange and his Finance Minister , Mr ( now Sir ) Roger Douglas , the reforms set about dismantling the generous subsidies to farming , New Zealand 's largest industry . |
| 26 | Fourthly , Mohamed Ali set out to modernise the Egyptian economy . |
| 27 | The Foundry was a joint project by gear manufacturers Wild Country , Jerry Moffatt and the shop Outside , and the whole set up cost a cool £200,000 . |
| 28 | At the end of the Second World War the US and UK set out to construct a new order for international trade and investment , a set of institutions and arrangements that became known as the Bretton Woods system . |
| 29 | After TB was diagnosed , he stopped work immediately and hospital staff set about contacting the 500 children and 500 staff who he had been in contact with him in the weeks before he became ill . |
| 30 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |