Example sentences of "[noun sg] to set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It could have been intended to foment differences between the Western powers over the American intention to set up Rapid Deployment Forces in the Middle East , and over the suggestion that the area of responsibility for NATO be extended outside Europe .
2 The Government has indicated an intention to set up some 20 such colleges in Inner City areas .
3 A GUIDE through the red tape to set up after-school care schemes has been launched by Cleveland Council for Voluntary Service .
4 The DBTG also specified a language to set up the logical schema , called the data description language ( DDL ) and a DDL to set up particular user views ( sub-schemas ) of the data structures .
5 Needless to say , additional funding to set up these units is often slow to materialise .
6 Unfortunately , I think it may be beyond my powers as a programmer to set up such a counterfeit world .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 England centre Jeremy Guscott sliced through the slush to set up two unconverted second-half tries for wing Adedayo Adebayo and lock Nigel Redman .
10 The campaign to prevent change of clerical control of the school system was also linked to the contemporary campaign to set up catholic university colleges .
11 Oxfam has provided materials and equipment to set up this bakery .
12 It 's a delightful , unique location and the Campaign for Real Ale plan to set up two big bars at Chappel and Walkes Colne Station where beer festival entry will allow a browse of the railway memorabilia ( during daylight hours ) .
13 Belgium subsequently insisted that one third of the waste be returned to Germany , where , however , there are no licensed storage facilities for it : opposition from the public and state governments had prevented the federal government from pursuing its plan to set up licensed reprocessing sites .
14 Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) .
15 However , in the light of strong recommendations received , our initial proposal to set both level II and level III general SVQs at 12 credits was revised .
16 A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives .
17 This is hardly the place to set out any argument to the contrary in detail , but attention should be drawn to the nearby temple , the altars , the cult-figures , the so-called nymphaeum and Christian monograms carved on its stone surround .
18 ( Firms may also feel the need to set up secondary market operations to build up relationships with investors , and to have an investor base for distribution of new issues . )
19 Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men .
20 Any such development depends crucially on popular initiatives and can not simply be legislated ( there are , however , important ways in which a socialist government could help to foster enterprise democracy , by making changes in company law , e. g. turning shareholders into mere bond-holders , granting the right to set up democratic mechanisms where this was approved by the workforce , and by means of preferential funding for democratic enterprises and ‘ workers ’ plans ' ) .
21 While the right to set up any agency , branch or subsidiary in another member state is invaluable when commercial considerations merit it , the obligation to set up such a local establishment may be a high price to pay for what is still only the occasional prospect of business .
22 The civil servants belatedly regretted their refusal to set up contributory machinery which , though costly in the short run , would have shifted the cost of future changes in the scheme onto the contributors .
23 In the Republic , as in the North , a parents ' movement to set up integrated schools was started around the same time .
24 They have called on the authority to set aside extra money for diabetic patients .
25 If the new clause goes through without amendment ( a ) , it will empower the Secretary of State to set up such a council .
26 ‘ In the circumstances , it would have been folly to set up another [ earlier ] inquiry which would only have hindered those already in progress , ’ said JDS head Sir Anthony Wilson in a letter to the Independent .
27 By the 1940s and 1950s the Red Poll was one of Britain 's major breeds but , in the rush to set up new herds , breeding standards began to slip badly on the farm , while at the same time the invading Friesian , fed on concentrates , considerably outyielded the breed and by the early 1960s its popularity had tumbled .
28 It is clear ( and quite natural ) that in the rush to set up such a massive process , capable of handling 10,000 registrations , there is some unevenness in the processing .
29 While the right to set up any agency , branch or subsidiary in another member state is invaluable when commercial considerations merit it , the obligation to set up such a local establishment may be a high price to pay for what is still only the occasional prospect of business .
30 Similarly , if you have a regular tutorial at say , 11 am each Tuesday , it makes sense to set aside some part of Monday to prepare yourself for the Tuesday tutorial ( see Chapters on managing your time at college ) .
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