Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is a two year review and strategy development programme set up in November 1990 by the deputy prime minister , Brian Howe .
2 The most recent review of quotas set up in March 1987 failed to conclude its review , and as a result the IMF board of governors requested fresh proposals for new quotas by April 1989 ; until that review the level of Fund quotas remained unchanged at SDR89.99 billion .
3 The North Atlantic Co-operation Council ( NACC ) , the joint security forum of the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the former Warsaw Pact set up in November 1991 [ see pp. 38600 , 38699 ] , held its second meeting in Brussels on March 10 .
4 The function of the European Legislation Committee set up in December 1972 was therefore confined to determining which proposals were legally important or politically important and to advising which of these should be debated by the full House .
5 , export manager at Courtaulds Coatings in New Zealand , met fellow winner , manager of the trade and retail paint division at Courtaulds International ( Brazil ) , in Hobart when the yachts set off on February 13 .
6 This is thanks to work by a corrective action team set up in January last year to investigate high and variable losses of caustic soda to the drain .
7 Hazlitt set out with Coleridge that morning on the road back to Shrewsbury , observing how his companion continually moved from one side of the footpath to the other as they walked along , though only later connecting this odd movement with ‘ any instability of purpose or involuntary change of principle ’ .
8 But this ignores the effect of new accounting rules set out in SSAP 24 , which require companies to spread a surplus over a number of years .
9 ‘ We helped 500 businesses set up in Teesside last year .
10 They were convicted of criminal offences and sentenced to death in recent months , with no right of appeal , by a military court set up in April 1991 .
11 In revolutionary France the Legislative Assembly set up in October 1791 a permanent diplomatic committee before which the foreign minister could be called to account ; and this process was pushed to its logical conclusion when in April 1794 the Convention abolished the ministry of foreign affairs and replaced it with a Commission of Foreign Relations subject to the Committee of Public Safety .
12 Eastern regional sales centre is one of seven centres set up in July this year following Scottish Amicable 's decision to separate the Independent Financial Advisor ( IFA ) and Appointed Representative ( AR ) distribution channels .
13 The Supreme Soviet decisions were based on findings by an official commission set up in May 1989 to examine the investigators ' work .
14 The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units .
15 If the information obtained from the Policyholder and the Doctor suggests there may be non-disclosure , the instructions set out in SCI 43 ( General ) should be fully complied with .
16 The various rules relating to tender offers set out in SAR 4 are listed below .
17 Opponents of this proposed legislation set up on Nov. 13 a committee headed by Zbigniew Bujak , the Solidarity veteran and Union of Labour deputy to the Sejm , to campaign for a national referendum on the issue .
18 Meanwhile , I had formed one of a group of Local Defence Volunteers , an emergency organization set up in May 1940 , later to be transformed into the Home Guard .
19 A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] .
20 An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 .
21 Colour analyst/hairdresser Mrs Myra Addison and photographer Mrs Ann Simmons together make up Beautiful Images , a venture set up in Darlington 15 months ago : and they came out tops with stunning portraits in competitions organised by the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Master Photographers ' Association .
22 When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well .
23 With this hope , he and Eugénie set out in August 1867 on a state visit to Austria to meet the Emperor Franz-Joseph at Salzburg .
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