Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
| 2 | Wilcox and Hill set up the move , Stowell could only block Shearer 's shot and Sellars followed up to put Rovers ahead . |
| 3 | Renault set up the first European organisation to collect and recycle certain car parts which had not previously been dealt with . |
| 4 | Early advice from the DOH set out the quality aspects that contracts should seek to ensure . |
| 5 | Her family and former schoolfriends in Crosby set up the Vicki Bayliss Neuroblastoma Research Fund in her memory and tomorrow her mother , Judy , will join the 850 runners who have applied to take part in the 11th Crosby 10 . |
| 6 | In the course of the work , Hubble set up the classification of galaxies displayed in his famous ‘ tuning-fork ’ diagram , which has been used ever since . |
| 7 | Undaunted , however , by these prospects , Gould set about the preparations for his journey with systematic thoroughness , and , considering the multitude of decisions that had to be made , remarkable clearheadedness . |
| 8 | Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s . |
| 9 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 10 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 11 | The team that ended the 1960s was dumped , and Ripley-Rust and Pybus set about the daunting task of building a squad capable of winning promotion when the club 's League career got underway again . |
| 12 | In a statement Mr Patten set out the place of sex education in society and the vital importance of teaching the teaching of moral values . |
| 13 | In response to this unrest , the National Advisory Council on Art Education ( NACAE ) and the NCDAD set up the joint Coldstream-Summerson committee to examine the structure of higher art and design education and suggest improvements . |
| 14 | Julian Williams set up the ruck , and Stephens sent Nigel Davies over , Stephens converting . |
| 15 | Julian Williams set up the ruck , and Stephens sent Nigel Davies over , Stephens converting . |
| 16 | The original church here was taken over as a convent church when San Carlo Borromeo set up the convent for girls who had been orphaned by the plague . |
| 17 | The IMF set about the problem by devising the special drawing right ( SDR ) as a means of settlement among its members . |
| 18 | Mark Blunt and David Wilson set up the Chester-le-Street win despite a 5–49 return from Mark Storey . |
| 19 | He watched carefully as Rory set out the papers . |
| 20 | Baglin set up the chance of national success after the most devastating result of the weekend — a 6 |
| 21 | A long clearance by keeper Freestone was headed on by West and Cullen set up the chance for PASCOE who , in plenty of space on edge of the area , rifled home a shot . |
| 22 | Stork set up the firm in 1973 , becoming operational with three employees in 1974 . |
| 23 | But the Mobbs had a panic button in the house , and Mrs Mobbs set off the alarm . |
| 24 | HENRY WHARTON set up the biggest fight in Yorkshire for years when he successfully defended his Commonwealth super-middleweight title by stopping Australian Rod Carr in eight rounds at Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday . |
| 25 | The old pals reunion at White Hart Lane … that 's Spurs v Swindon finished as it started all square … former Town favourite David Kerslake set up the Spurs goal for Jason Dozzell … and then another old County Ground hero Colin Calderwood went and gave away a penalty … it looked like a handball at first but Calderwood was guilty of pushing … |
| 26 | John Rose set up the famous porcelain factory at Coalport in 1785 , and it became noted for the fine quality of its decoration and lavish gilding . |
| 27 | On the application of both defendants Wright J. set aside the order in so far as related to such disclosure on the ground that it infringed their privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 28 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 29 | In 1988 , some time before the USSR began to crumble , Martyn Assirati set up the Russian Wine Company in London and travelled east to see what he could find . |
| 30 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |