Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast the tax charge increased in the UK , mainly becuase of the inability to set off UK losses outside the ring-fence against ring-fenced North Sea income . |
| 2 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 3 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 4 | Then in 1986 came the opportunity to set up independently with Tim Hely Hutchinson and Sue Fletcher . |
| 5 | The database administrator ( DBA ) is given the opportunity to set up indexes at data creation time and this will increase the speed by which data is retrieved . |
| 6 | It was another sunny morning and I took the opportunity to set off with Singi , our assistant sirdar , for a shapely rock peak rising above the campsite and offering the prospect of an interesting climb and a good viewpoint . |
| 7 | A group of us were able to provide almost all the funding to set up a pump and latrines for one particular village in India . |
| 8 | But I could n't get the support to set up the business . ’ |
| 9 | They want the Government to abolish Child Benefit and all tax allowances for parents and use the money to set up full-time Community Homes for everyone under the age of sixteen . |
| 10 | The money to set up these trusts is to be supplied by industry , and the schools are to be founded for the most part in inner cities , and are to be technological in character . |
| 11 | It is convenient at this stage of the narrative to set out what were the coroner 's powers and duties . |
| 12 | So how do you go about persuading the birds to set up home ? |
| 13 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 14 | The report suggests that the decision to set up hospital trusts in Scotland resulted either from ‘ deference ’ to the arguments of groups applying for trust status , or from ‘ blind determination to implement unpopular policy ’ . |
| 15 | Does the Minister accept that when the wishes of the people of Scotland are reflected in the decision to set up a Scottish parliament , it will indeed make sense to reduce the representation of Scots in the House ? |
| 16 | Although the CNAA was not now to oversee a rolling programme of promotions to the ‘ university club ’ , how much autonomy the new polytechnics would want and acquire — from their local authorities and the CNAA — was to be a feature of debate from the creation of the first polytechnics , and from the decision to set up a Committee of Directors of Polytechnics in December 1969 and its formal establishment in April 1970 . |
| 17 | Section 53(1) allows the buyer to set off damages due to him for breach of warranty against the price he owes the seller . |
| 18 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 19 | England centre Jeremy Guscott sliced through the slush to set up two unconverted second-half tries for wing Adedayo Adebayo and lock Nigel Redman . |
| 20 | The Composers Pen instrument screen enables the user to set up the basic layout of the score . |
| 21 | And he alleges England 's trip to New Zealand was used by the striker to set up his own lucrative deal with Japanese club Grampus Eight . |
| 22 | It would then be up to the employee to set up his own business and exploit the patent if he is able to attract venture or loan capital to do so . |
| 23 | It is scarcely feasible for the communes to set up the apparatus to assess local household incomes ; this is a matter that is best left to the republics and provinces . |
| 24 | It seems far more important to me to provide an effective and clear demonstration of those virtues of the product that you are trying to put across than to lose the proposition in the attempt to set up a credible context for it . |
| 25 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 26 | The implementation of the recommendation to set up the Crown Court is recounted in a later chapter , but we should note here the implications for the Lord Chancellor . |
| 27 | The bid to set up a Chinese takeaway on Whinfield Road was turned down because of parking problems and likely disturbance . |
| 28 | Darlington Labour MP Alan Milburn said he would be pressing for the review to set up a unitary authority for the town based on existing boundaries . |
| 29 | His first tasks were to erect fortifications , to intrigue to prevent the Arabs from uniting to expel the intruder , and to use the Jews to set up a highly efficient intelligence network . |
| 30 | He was particularly critical of the plan to set up a ‘ severe hardship ’ permit . |