Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , in February 1992 , then UK Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley announced that he had set up a steering group of leading businessmen to consider a prestigious new National Quality Award for the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Such is Mitterrand 's passion for golf that he has set up a Commission Ministerielle de terminologie du sport . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Gallie summarised the views of Blauner , Mallet , and Naville because he wished to set up an empirical test of their theses . |
| 9 | Not because he wanted to set up a model village , but because he saw that with the employment he was generating at Bournville out in the Worcestershire countryside , speculative builders would come in and put up very inferior dwellings if he did n't take a hand . |
| 10 | 's fluency in Spanish will be a big help as he works to set up the distribution and training systems which hold the key to success . |