Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] set [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 . |
2 | Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 . |
3 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
4 | Thus , in addition to the basic meaning of ‘ constitution ’ — a document containing , at the very least , a code of rules setting out the allocation of functions , powers and duties among the various agencies and officers of government — there is a wider meaning of constitution , according to which every democratic state has a constitution . |
5 | Some concern was expressed about the slow progress on negotiations to set up the museum and it was hoped that a further meeting with Shropshire Leisure Services could be set up soon . |
6 | The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature . |
7 | see that er paragraph three of the statement of claims sets out the history of the transaction a and pleads the relevant facts . |
8 | Rather in the same way that the mite of scabies sets up an allergic reaction , in certain people infected with candida an intense irritation occurs , which may be quite out of proportion to the degree of infection . |
9 | If a centre wants to find out about compatibility of their computer system and SCOTVEC 's or wants information on specifications to set up a system , contact myself or my colleague Fraser MacFarlane . |
10 | The policy speech comes less than a month before the likely date for ministers to set out the balance of subjects in the new curriculum for Scots children aged between five and 14 . |
11 | In permitting the bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a mint in 864 , the king acknowledged difficulties in suppling the new currency . |
12 | The paper proposed for each area of the curriculum for pupils 5–14 ‘ a nationally agreed set of guidelines setting out the aims of study , the content to be covered , and the objectives to be achieved ’ . |