Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning . |
| 2 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
| 3 | LET'S GO surfing now — John Milius ’ most successful movie sets out on the ocean wave of West Coast surfing culture following the metamorphosis of three macho beach bums during the '60s decade of lost innocence , alcoholism , the draft and the mythic rites played out on the ocean wave . |
| 4 | of course , if the vacancy requirements fluctuate as well , as is the case with contractors , a kind of see-saw effect sets in with the recruitment team oscillating between periods of intense activity and chaos on the one hand , and having nothing to do on the other hand . |
| 5 | Although a Private Members Bill , it had been included in the Government 's programme set out in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 6 | There 's an ecumenical consensus nowadays surely that it is by faith and baptism that one is made a Christian or becomes a Christian and we 've also inherited , many of us , another rite , with its origins in the New Testament , valuable in the making of a christian and the three strands in confirmation set out in the report before us would certainly be owned by all of us . |
| 7 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 8 | Two days before they struck , a sensor light set up outside the house was smashed . |
| 9 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 10 | Sun users in education and research can access public domain software , shareware , research articles and images via InterNet and SunSite , a new easy-to-use interactive information repository set up with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . |
| 11 | It 's the fourth year running that the Tudor Manor is playing host to a mini opera season in the three hundred seater auditorium set up at the side of the house . |
| 12 | Origin and purpose The European Investment Bank ( EIB ) is a European Community institution set up under the Treaty of Rome in 1958 as a source of long-term finance for investment projects . |
| 13 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 14 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 15 | Yesterday , though , the independent committee set up by the Government to look at the admissibility of pre-trial video interviews of abused children called for radical changes . |
| 16 | Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class . |
| 17 | The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner . |
| 18 | Duncan Graham was the first boss of the council set up by the Government to decide what should be taught in schools . |
| 19 | Chatichai Choonhaven , the Prime Minister deposed by the military in the February 1991 coup [ see p. 38003 ] , was now allied with the Samakkhi Tham party , which was supported by the National Peace-Keeping Council set up by the military after the coup . |
| 20 | They switched on the car 's headlights as a beacon ; but , all of a sudden , as the Prince and his companions were half-way across the water , the lights swung round and moved away as the vehicle set off down the glen . |
| 21 | The most geologically interesting and romantically appealing of the three islands is Niuafo'ou , a sunken volcanic caldera set off to the west . |
| 22 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
| 23 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 24 | The helicopter and a standby vessel spotted a flare set off by the crew and stayed in the vicinity until the men were winched to safety by an RAF helicopter . |
| 25 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 26 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 27 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 28 | Banbury is certainly a planted town set up by the Bishop of Lincoln between 1123 and 1138 . |
| 29 | Through the condensation set up by the intake of cooler air into a warm-blooded animal , a dolphin receives a supply of fresh non-salt water when breathing . |
| 30 | It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute . |