Example sentences of "of setting [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 He did not win : the executive in charge of setting up the European offices was the dynamic ex-sheriff of Caribou , Idaho , named William Swift Daliba , who could toss a silver dollar in the air and plug it with his six-gun .
2 What was needed instead was some means of setting up the apparatus so that each detector could not ‘ know ’ in advance the polarisation being detected at the other side of the experiment .
3 There are ways of plotting the profile of the gore , and the mathematically minded will no doubt enjoy a computer exercise of setting up the progressively diminishing diameters , and the calculation of gore width at 10% stages from base to apex .
4 The Treasury also opposed contributory pensions , objecting to the cost of setting up the machinery to collect contributions , to keep the necessary records and to make payments , in addition to the cost of paying pensions to those who were already aged and could make no contribution .
5 Much of the initial cost of setting up the campaign was covered either by various committee members somehow doing things for free or came from the remainder of the money raised at the Comedy Store .
6 The vertical and horizontal rulers need to be set to a rigidly defined position , at least for the purposes of setting up the grids .
7 As soon as this task had been completed a similar procedure to that of setting up the initial data base was adopted .
8 ‘ But amazingly the process of setting up the co-op really did involve some of the men , and even the older boys .
9 We are , of course , hoping to obtain some financial assistance from the county towards the cost of setting up the museum .
10 Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon .
11 We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit .
12 Moreoever , even if one were to do this the fact of setting up the control and the experimental groups could well introduce a note of artificiality into the experiment .
13 It is the availability of the fibre optic network that helps MBS address the problem of setting up the interactive links between the service itself and its users .
14 What are the mechanics of , of setting up the , the new body ?
15 The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team .
16 ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association .
17 The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year .
18 At the time of setting up the main problems facing UK carpet manufacturers were the depressed state of the economy and the fact that imports of carpets were taking an increasing share of a diminishing market .
19 Okay , I will then , outside this meeting , take on this task of setting up the forms view the output from all this gathering and decide what , whether we can make a sensible rationing from some of the forms .
20 Once these difficult decisions have been taken , the mechanics of setting out the budget are a relatively simple matter of listing the details of the year 's spending plan .
21 We shall postpone until Chapter 3 the task of setting out the full array of intensional patterns which are expressed in the syntactic structures involving English adjectives .
22 It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause .
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