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

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1 The Labour Party was developing from the federation of industrial and political organizations set up in 1900 .
2 From Scotland Yard , Nigel Cramer and six officers set off in two patrol cars , their sirens howling up Whitehall and down the Mall to pick up Park Lane and the road north out of London .
3 Often these representations are made by the Faculty of the Institute alone , but wherever it is considered beneficial , submissions are made in conjunction with other professional bodies and , indeed , the Tax Faculty is represented on a number of joint bodies set up for this purpose .
4 Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices .
5 The scheme consists of 21 classes set out in 47 separately published schedules .
6 The basic principles set out in this Code will apply whether or not the lending in question is secured .
7 Article 20.1 of the Danish Constitution allows powers to be ‘ delegated to international authorities set up by mutual agreement with other states for the promotion of international rules of law and cooperation ’ .
8 By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships .
9 But , unusually , the venture will do everything from research and design through to manufacture compared with the now notorious ‘ screwdriver ’ assembly-only factories set up by many foreign investors in Britain .
10 The government 's policy paper contained provisions for state-aided settlement schemes to encourage black farmers to set up on 485,000 hectares of government land .
11 However , not all historians set out with this purpose .
12 Throughout the period a high percentage of workers , especially in the newly developed areas and the many enterprises set up in rural areas , were born into peasant families .
13 The move came amidst concern about the high levels of bad debt carried by the Nigerian banking system , particularly that held by some of the smaller banks set up in recent years .
14 And all the smouldering volcanic lava of past England-Pakistan cricket argument and controversy was reignited in those few flashpoint moments , consuming the polite arms-length relations set up by those who had foreseen the dangers from the start of the tour .
15 The classical legends set down by ancient Greek poets like Homer referred to a number of gods , under their leader Zeus , supposedly located on Mount Olympus , who made occasional forays onto the human scene in various human or animal disguises .
16 But when diminishing marginal returns set in in 1983-4 , further increases in duty deterred consumption leading to falling sales and eventually lower tax revenue for the Treasury .
17 The HIDB and the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno are both examples of intermediate institutions set up with intersectoral mandates to assist disadvantaged areas .
18 Gorbachev on Dec. 29 , 1990 , issued two decrees setting up in 1991 an all-union " extra-budgetary economic stabilization fund " , and introducing a sales tax .
19 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328
20 It was a government word used , for example , in the 1975 slogan ‘ Socialism and freedom are one ! ’ ( later to become ‘ Islam , socialism and freedom are one ! ’ ) , painted on walls and on the triumphal arches set up over main roads .
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