Example sentences of "[vb past] to set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 2 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 3 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 4 | Armenia , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agreed to set up the Assembly " as a consultative institution to discuss matters and consider draft documents of common interest " . |
| 5 | The so-called Endeavour Accord , which provided for the immediate lifting of the blockade and for the restoration of communications , education , health and power services , was reached after the two sides agreed to set aside the independence question for further talks within the next eight weeks . |
| 6 | The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision . |
| 7 | But the bed was manoeuvred into the room without incident , the two men departed after various forms had been signed , and Belinda and Tom began to set up the room . |
| 8 | Only once did she think of Johnny , when , as the morning wore away , one of the mothers , who was sitting reading while father jumped the waves with the children at the water 's edge , closed her book , and spreading a cloth on the sand , began to set out the picnic . |
| 9 | 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cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 10 | In March representatives of more than 1,000 private firms decided to set up the Association of Private and Privatised Business , which they have invited Mr Gaidar to run.Two other lobbies for reform have come into being , the Entrepreneurial Policy Initiative and the Inter-regional Trade and Banking Union . |
| 11 | In fact , he said , one of the reasons IBM France decided to set up the new division was to cater for software partners and other customers . |
| 12 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 13 | The justices purported to set aside the conviction 29 days after the finding of guilt and none of the convicting justices had been a party to the decision to set it aside , so neither of the two conditions obtained . |
| 14 | The Cambridge substitutes , Paul Raynor and Steve Claridge , combined to set up the opening goal after 64 minutes for Mike Norbury . |
| 15 | But the assumption , doubtful in itself , that in a Co-operative Community the distinction would have had no meaning does not explain why , when in the real world of Rochdale in the 1850s the distinction became apparent to them the Pioneers chose to set up the production arm as a separate society . |
| 16 | On arrival Rick and I walked around the lake and chose two likely looking swims towards the bottom end near the dam where we proceeded to set up the carp rods . |
| 17 | When we left to set up the course the total had crept up to about 30 . |
| 18 | She wanted to set down the southern landscape . |