Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] set [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BT , which is bidding in a consortium including Daimler-Benz , says that the investment in setting up the network would be £850m . |
| 2 | ‘ But amazingly the process of setting up the co-op really did involve some of the men , and even the older boys . |
| 3 | ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association . |
| 4 | The vertical and horizontal rulers need to be set to a rigidly defined position , at least for the purposes of setting up the grids . |
| 5 | — who are taking the lead in setting up the new Divisions — are now starting discussions , where necessary backed by targeted groups to take our thinking forward . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you certainly nailed your colours to the mast by setting up the post-mortem . ’ |
| 7 | I note in passing , however , that , when it comes to squandering the nation 's money , I can not think of a better example than the enormous amounts squandered by the Government in setting up the machinery for the administration of the poll tax , which is now to be totally unwound . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We are , of course , hoping to obtain some financial assistance from the county towards the cost of setting up the museum . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |
| 18 | This would normally be the position under current standard policies but there is no harm in setting out the principal risks . |
| 19 | A DDL for setting up the user views or external schemas and a DML for the processing of hierarchies ( applications using the data ) is described in Section 7.2 , in the context of IMS . |
| 20 | The question was then what should be done with it — and there was no point in setting up the collection unless it was going to be a working library . |
| 21 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 22 | ‘ So when I contacted Liverpool and was told he was available I w sted no time in setting up the deal . |