Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 All these -isms together set up a serious fact/belief divide whereby facts are regarded as objective , reliable and unbiased , and values , principles and beliefs as subjective , unreliable and probably biased .
2 Parents themselves thereupon set up a pressure group of their own ( Mother Care for Children in Hospital , now the National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital ; which , with all the enthusiasm of maternal solicitude that has the acknowledged right on its side , and with the help of a sympathetic press , is gradually altering the atmosphere of children 's hospital care .
3 The Bulgarian Communist Party politburo yesterday set up a top-level investigation into corruption under the deposed leader , Mr Todor Zhivkov , and fired his son as head of a party department .
4 If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold .
5 The issue was finally resolved in our day , as the government have now set up a pension for poets , a license to be lazy .
6 He has now set up a British company , Flyda Ltd , to exploit his invention .
7 As indicated above , we have now set up a Validated Courses Section within the Assessment Department and ( ) is heading this .
8 We have now set up a Human Rights Committee , properly structured and managed , with a defined budget .
9 The government has now set up a support centre to help such families : ; Fc Good afternoon , emergency unit .
10 It 's the fourth such death this year , and the sport 's governing body has now set up an inquiry .
11 Now set up the tank again .
12 Having established our respective rural development frameworks , we have now set up the cross-border steering committee , which comprises officials of the two Departments responsible for rural development .
13 I now set out the reasons for which I agreed that the appeal should be allowed .
14 Erm I 've now set out the budget details for the three years .
15 Erm , on software we said we said we had to add that into our procedures anyhow , last , on our last year view meeting , did n't we , which is what we 've done and we 've also as of today set up a system of logging new software coming in and signing it .
16 In Belfast from 1931 to 1938 a total of 800 twice-weekly boxing-programmes were put on by ‘ Ma Copley ’ , who first organized fights in the open air and then set up a boxing hall at Chapel Fields .
17 After discussing what led a girl to become a prostitute they then set up a series of dramas showing some of the stresses ( including poverty ) a fictitious character had had to face in her early life .
18 While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson .
19 Some teachers and employers in London then set up a Compact in two London boroughs .
20 Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox .
21 His athletic , shimmying run then set up the second-try for Dewi Morris .
22 Silas and Matt then set up the barbecue , and Lucy was able to open the two food hampers , her eyes widening at the variety they contained .
23 The judge then set out the terms of the order sought and in the event obtained and continued :
24 In the end we decided to go to bed , and then set out the next morning just in time to catch the ship to Hamburg .
25 If the law is not clear , first pose the legal question and then set out the authorities bearing on it .
26 Having planted avenues and pleasure grounds around the house , he then set about the building of farms and the planting of woods .
27 The Phalangists stormed into Tony Franjieh 's home , murdered 32 of his supporters and bodyguards and then set about the ritual execution of Suleiman Franjieh 's beloved son .
28 This work behind them , Peach and Horne then set about the description of the North:West Highlands .
29 Political disorders in 401 ( Diod. xiv.34 ) forced the oligarchs at Cyrene to compromise with their opponents ( i.e. set up a ‘ mixed ’ constitution and share power more widely ) .
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