Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe .
2 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 ) .
3 Members of the council agreed to set up a joint initiative involving all public agencies .
4 The conference agreed to set up a joint study group to look at the particularly urgent question of the DipHE , to be followed by a similar study group on the BEd .
5 The meeting agreed to set up a working group on whale-watching but a British proposal to give the IWC a role in monitoring whale-watching and preparing guidelines to minimise disturbance to the animals was opposed by Japan and Norway and their supporters .
6 Information Minister Alex Akinyele , describing the report as " totally false " , said that the government had set up a special fund to receive oil earnings in excess of budgeted levels .
7 The government refused to set up a public inquiry .
8 PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims .
9 Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ .
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