Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] set [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They immediately had to dive for cover , however , as the Germans had set up a pair of machine guns in front of the doors behind hastily piled crates . |
| 2 | The ACPS had set up a sub-committee , under the chairmanship of Baroness Wootton of Abinger , to carry out the review . |
| 3 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the supporters want to set up a petition encouraging Flashman to go . |
| 5 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
| 6 | This document , written by Hornby , emphasized that the Council had set up a procedure for dealing with proposals which began with a detailed scrutiny of documents from the college and involved painstaking work by the subject boards , so that the Council ‘ might establish the standards of its degrees ’ . |
| 7 | Members of the council agreed to set up a joint initiative involving all public agencies . |
| 8 | The council has set up a special investigation team to try and track down the copiers . |
| 9 | In some polytechnics and colleges students can proceed from a two-year Diploma in Higher Education to a first degree , and the CNAA has set up a Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme ( CATS ) which allows students to accumulate credits not only from a variety of higher education institutions but from accredited employer-based and experiential learning . |
| 10 | The committee have set up a working party to look into the proposal . |
| 11 | Marcel Berlins writes : ‘ I 'm pleased to see that the Bar has set up a committee to monitor and research into sex discrimination in the profession . ’ |
| 12 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 13 | The conference agreed to set up a joint study group to look at the particularly urgent question of the DipHE , to be followed by a similar study group on the BEd . |
| 14 | The meeting agreed to set up a working group on whale-watching but a British proposal to give the IWC a role in monitoring whale-watching and preparing guidelines to minimise disturbance to the animals was opposed by Japan and Norway and their supporters . |
| 15 | At this meeting the delegates agreed to set up a steering committee consisting of members from Germany , Holland , Italy and Great Britain , with John Young as Chairman . |
| 16 | The government proposes to set up a network of secondary schools under direct central control . |
| 17 | Information Minister Alex Akinyele , describing the report as " totally false " , said that the government had set up a special fund to receive oil earnings in excess of budgeted levels . |
| 18 | The government refused to set up a public inquiry . |
| 19 | In privatising water , the government has set up a regulatory regime biased towards raising quality rather than controlling costs — and this has played straight into the hands of the commission . |
| 20 | In response , the government has set up a judicial inquiry , which is to consider submissions over two months , before a final decision by Minerals and Energy Minister George Bartlett . |
| 21 | The Government has set up a task force to survey mental health services over the next two years . |
| 22 | The Government intends to set up a Staff Commission to oversee this process , but details of its remit and operation are as yet unclear . |
| 23 | The RSPB recommends setting up a conservation programme with a target of one million hectares of surplus farmland to be managed for wildlife by the year 2000 . |
| 24 | The Cubans hope to make their own spare parts and replacements ; lest that should fail , the state has set up a breeding-station for draft oxen . |
| 25 | The US wanted to set up a working group to study these costs , but other nations rejected the proposal . |
| 26 | To help investigate gill net use and bird deaths elsewhere around the coast , the Society has set up a confidential phone line . |
| 27 | The report recommends setting up a new centralized inter-agency , inter-state programme which would be responsible for funding , monitoring and giving advice . |
| 28 | Paul O'Grady remains chairman of Micro Focus Plc and Brian Reynolds a director , but the Coboller has set up a four-man management committee to act as its chief executive : the committee will consist of John Beggs , who has become president of worldwide sales after the creation of a single sales force , Paul Adams , the new president of products and business development , Bob Connors , who becomes chief operating officer and Ron Forbes , who remains chief finance and administrative officer , the company said . |
| 29 | Mr Tammames said : ‘ The Socialists have set up a client state where the pensioners , the people on the dole , are all sucking sustenance through government tubes . |
| 30 | Environmental groups and small timber traders from around the world have set up a Forest Stewardship Council , charged with deciding what constitutes " sustainable " tropical forestry . |