Example sentences of "[Wh pn] set [adv prt] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Jane Copley , sister of Joanna Copley who set up the help line was in no doubt about what must be done now . |
2 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
3 | So too was Oscar Deutsch who set up the Odeon Cinema chain from Colmore Row in the 20 's and 30's . |
4 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |
5 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
6 | Barry Lloyd , who set up the Gulf Families Association , and still counsels soldiers and their families , says he was the victim of a smear campaign . |
7 | Lord Cheshire : July 31 , aged 74 : Second World War flying ace , awarded the VC , who set up the Cheshire Foundation Home . |
8 | The importance of the cognitive structuring of space is expressed by Mark and Frank ( 1989 ) , who set out the research agenda for the ‘ Spatial Languages ’ Research Initiative of the US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis ( NCGIA ) . |