Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 2 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 3 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 4 | These recommendations are part of the 1990 Government White Paper ( Home Office 1990a ) , which claimed to set out a coherent , legislative framework for sentencing , matching punishment to the seriousness of the crime , and making the distinction between violent and non-violent crime . |
| 5 | At 55 he could claim a distinguished record of philanthropic and public service which included setting up the Royal Army Education Corps . |
| 6 | During her years as team manager she had set up a good system for running the team , organising training camps and equipment sponsors and felt that her energy could now be better spent on developing the sport at grass-root level . |
| 7 | Some of the improvements may have originated from his brother Jonathan , who had set up a flourishing instrument-making business in Rotterdam . |
| 8 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 9 | She wanted to set down the southern landscape . |
| 10 | At St Mary 's , we decided to set up a 10-week pilot study before fully implementing the new role . |
| 11 | Gerry : Even though we talked about the report on ethnic minorities for a bit , more importantly we discussed setting up an independent Black group with our own structures and demands . |
| 12 | They agreed to set up a Supreme Council of British Mosques to consider how British Muslims should respond to Saddam Hussein 's call for a holy war . |
| 13 | They agreed to set up a working group on normalizing relations , to meet in New York , headed by Kenneth Quinn , a US deputy assistant secretary of state , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's ambassador to the UN . |
| 14 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 15 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 16 | They undertook to set up a technical committee to oversee the ceasefire , under the supervision of ECOWAS ( the Economic Community of West African States ) , and to declare all ports and airports " military-free zones " . |
| 17 | retained direct control of the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ might not work well if the new lines had to be separated administratively from the Corporation system , so they decided to set up a subsidiary company as they had done in other areas . |
| 18 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 19 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) on March 18 obtained a local ceasefire in order to send a mission to Stepanakert , where it planned to set up an operational base . |
| 20 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 21 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 22 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
| 23 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 24 | The company , founded by Mrs Cooper 's great grandfather Robert Richardson , soon began to specialise in clock making and became so popular it had to set up a separate factory at Robert Street . |
| 25 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) announced on Sept. 3 that it had set up a short-term technical advice scheme for the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | On Nov. 18 Libya announced that it had set up a judicial inquiry to investigate the allegations . |
| 27 | Since leaving in March , he had set up a private school in St. Peter 's Parsonage , with about sixty pupils from his old school . |
| 28 | He had set up a 10-strong Renewable Energy Advisory Group ( REAG ) . |
| 29 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 30 | He also told Miss Slater , then 25 , that he had set up an electrical circuit to the box and if she moved she would be electrocuted . |