Example sentences of "[vb base] set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |
| 2 | You 've set up this meeting for me and I ca n't thank you enough . |
| 3 | We 've set up some walk in sessions on Saturday between 9 and 1 and during the week , so you can talk to someone then . |
| 4 | They 've set aside thousands of tonnes of salt which they 'll dump on icy road surfaces to make driving safer . |
| 5 | We have set up new Regional Arts Boards and supported the Scottish and Welsh Arts Councils in order to diversify and enrich cultural life throughout the country . |
| 6 | we have set up 16 local drug prevention teams in inner cities to tackle particular problem areas ; |
| 7 | In the worst areas , they have set up machine-gun bunkers in supermarket parking lots to prevent further looting . |
| 8 | Over the past few years , many companies have set up contracted-out money purchase schemes — or COMPS , as they are known for short — which operate on a different principle from final salary schemes . |
| 9 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 10 | Parents and teachers have set up one of the first toy libraries in the country for visually handicapped children . |
| 11 | All the emergency services … and gas and electricity workers … have set up real life situations that youngsters may face . |
| 12 | The Area boards which have set up multidisciplinary teams to consider the care of elderly people have focused on information gathering , producing policy advice on multidisciplinary problems and future needs ( Birrell and Williamson , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union and South Korea have set up consular offices in each other 's capitals , Seoul 's foreign ministry said yesterday . |
| 14 | The team at the project have set up some times when everyone can pop in , as well as a special session on Wednesday mornings which is only for women and children . |
| 15 | His remarks are reinforced by the fact that , according to the DTI 's Overseas Trade Service , more than 2,000 British companies have already established subsidiaries in France or have set up some form of joint venture with French companies . |
| 16 | However , many travellers have set up more fixed camps around the city , which does not have an official site . |
| 17 | Others have set up one-year and two-year training courses in church planting , encouraging those being trained to pay for the privilege and so contributing to the financing of church planting , as well as providing workers in training . |
| 18 | Executive elites have tried to exempt certain policy zones from judicial oversight , or have set up specialized tribunals , committees , and boards , staffed by experts who employ inquisitorial rather than adversarial methods of establishing the truth . |
| 19 | In the guerilla areas of El Salvador , the peasants for the first time have the chance to administer their own lives and here they have set up elected councils , along with health and education programs and they organise production ( Pearce 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Tony Tucker , a director of syndications and asset trading at Continental Bank in London , reckons that GPA 's woes have set off new competition among brokers of distressed bank debt . |
| 21 | Twice in the last decade police shootings of blacks have set off extensive rioting . |
| 22 | Most restaurants and cafes have set aside small no-smoking areas but wo n't be enforcing the rule . |
| 23 | The Bishops have set aside two days in May for the services at Gloucester Cathedral . |
| 24 | Schroders , the merchant bankers , have set aside 52.6 per cent for Tokyo ; 26.2 per cent for continental Europe ; 11.9 per cent for Canada and 9.3 per cent for Wall Street investors . |
| 25 | The Italian authorities have set aside three and a half billion pounds to bolster the city 's coastal defences . |
| 26 | The top seven , all Tories apart from Mr Jones , have the most chance of success , since business managers have set aside seven Fridays for private members ' bills . |
| 27 | You are , if I am not mistaken , twenty-five years old , which is an age when , I am well aware , you could still meet and fall in love with a far younger man than I. However , from what you have told me , you have already given away your heart and have set aside any thought of another such love . |
| 28 | The banks have set aside billions in ‘ loan loss provisions ’ against possible future bad debts , essentially transferring their money from one pocket to another . |
| 29 | We have set about this task by seeking to extend the earlier analysis , and much of the discussion takes the form of modifying the earlier general equilibrium equations . |
| 30 | In many ways , you will have to throw away the rule book because the tried and tested that you have set so much store by will prove inadequate for the job . |