Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a damp start for fund-raisers yesterday , when walkers set out on the annual march from Cultra to Bangor to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast 's Somerton Road . |
| 2 | For consistency , we use a standard predictive scheme based upon thirty-five predictors representing the influences set out in the general model of media influence described in Chapter 1 . |
| 3 | From July 1993 , only scientists will be allowed to enter the park , which is Russia 's contribution to a network of Arctic reserves set up by the international treaty signed at Rovaniemi in Finland in 1989 . |
| 4 | The reserve was the flagship of Project Tiger , the recovery programme set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1972 . |
| 5 | ‘ Memphis ’ is the name of the design partnership set up by the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass in 1981 when he exhibited the furniture which has now become pseudonymous with this name at the Italian Furniture Fair . |
| 6 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 7 | In a recent article in the Irish Times , referring to the ‘ job creation ’ units set up by the Catholic Church , the paper hailed the clergy with the headline , ‘ Priests take on Provos for the People 's hearts ’ . |
| 8 | Although there is some experience of contracting in such services as catering and cleaning , the scale of the programme set out in the White Paper is of a different order . |
| 9 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 10 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 11 | The second is the joint committee set up by the General Council of the Bar and The Law Society , chaired by Lady Marre , which reported in July 1988 ( Marre Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | A military aeroplane set out for the Kaylayaan islands with voting papers for the village elections being held throughout the Philippines . |
| 13 | Given the philosophy set out in the previous section it is essential that the Senior Administrative Assistant have able and experienced Principal Officers who they can turn to and that such Principal Officers should not be overstretched by dealing with individual cases but are available to direct and manage operations . |
| 14 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 15 | Balanced growth incidence requires that , and from these equations it is possible to examine the effect of different combinations of taxes , taking account of the equivalence set out in the preceding paragraph . |
| 16 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | Doing this allows a development of the ideas set out in the previous chapter regarding the salient institutional features which characterize a place . |
| 18 | Such powers were a necessity for advanced warning , as were the short wavelengths for the much greater precision in the location of targets than was possible with the 11-m waves of the coastal radar stations set up during the late 1930s . |
| 19 | ’ Police Governments ’ refers to the Western interpretation of the strict governments set up by the Soviet Union in the countries in Eastern Europe within its sphere of interest . |
| 20 | David agreed to relay the feelings of the Programme Group that subsidy should be considered to the group set up by the Open College to negotiate with the denominations and with suitable trusts concerning the setting up of financial support for courses , training , etc . |
| 21 | Since then , he has crammed in a whole host of charitable activities including being secretary of Cleveland Rotafac Trust , a charitable group set up by the Rotary Club of Guisborough and Great Ayton . |
| 22 | Systematic excavation was begun on 30 July by a team of underwater divers from Stas ( the underwater archaeology team set up by the Italian government in 1986 ) headed by Claudio Mocchegiani Carpano and Roberto Petriaggi , together with the underwater unit of the Naples Carabinieri . |
| 23 | Chairman , I believe that this is just the sort of motion that can only bring local government into disrepute It 's an abuse of power the council holds lands in the county farms estate for purposes set out in the nineteen sixty agriculture act . |
| 24 | Added to complaints by women 's organisations about the screen 's increasing sexuality ( for that era ) , the Arbuckle scandal helped to bring about censorship by the Hays Office , a self-regulating body set up by the big studios in 1922 , under lawyer Will H. Hays . |
| 25 | The last time there was an inquiry into activities which may involve cruelty to wild animals was the Scott Henderson Inquiry set up by the Labour Government in 1949 . |
| 26 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 27 | The Child Poverty Action Group , a pressure group set up in the 1960s , urged governments to deal with this problem by increasing family allowances . |
| 28 | Rather later than planned Rain set off for the Old Mitre pub . |
| 29 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 30 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |