Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility that the amount of the bills might be reduced on a taxation which has still not been initiated is not a sufficient reason in this case for setting aside the demand . |
| 2 | The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team . |
| 3 | We can better understand this speech by setting out the levels of deception in parentheses : ( I think [ you think ] { I love you } ) . |
| 4 | Okay , I will then , outside this meeting , take on this task of setting up the forms view the output from all this gathering and decide what , whether we can make a sensible rationing from some of the forms . |
| 5 | His somewhat thankless task was to attempt to introduce private-sector techniques into the Civil Service by setting up the Property Services Agency . |
| 6 | A major part in setting up the Czartoryski Foundation , and in most of the other similar attempts , has been played by an eminence grise familiar to Western art circles , namely the London art dealer Andrew Ciechanowiecki . |
| 7 | Some legislative attempts have been made to structure the exercise of sentencing discretion by setting out the criteria which courts should apply when deciding on a sentence , but these , too , are limited in scope . |
| 8 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 9 | The latter two were on a nine-man organising committee along with Philip Tomalin , who , as cricket chairman of the French Sports Federation and captain of the SAC , had a major role in setting up the game . |
| 10 | The prime mover in setting up the group , which had been launched in Budapest in November 1989 ( Czechoslovakia had joined in May 1990 ) , had been Italian Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis . |
| 11 | There is usually an initial charge for setting up the scheme , as well as an annual management fee . |
| 12 | Much of the initial cost of setting up the campaign was covered either by various committee members somehow doing things for free or came from the remainder of the money raised at the Comedy Store . |
| 13 | However he had made a harmless-looking technical assumption in setting up the problem which proved to be unduly restrictive . |
| 14 | The Department of the Environment had come under increasing criticism for the slow progress in setting up the trust . |
| 15 | Substitutions played a big part in setting up the amazing finale that produced three goals in the final five minutes when both defences looked wide open . |
| 16 | He played a vital role in setting up the Australian National Trust , and was president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities . |
| 17 | Three months before the due date for setting down the court will issue reminder cards to parties in live cases stating the date by which their case is due to be set down . |