Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 2 | Before detailing the two main components of LMS , this introductory chapter sets out the general framework of change . |
| 3 | The second , in 1552 , saw the publication of Hamilton 's Catechism , a vernacular work setting out the basic tenets of Catholic belief . |
| 4 | In 1917 the British government set up a new department of overseas trade designed to bring commerce and foreign policy into more effective contact : its head was to be responsible to both the foreign secretary and the president of the board of trade . |
| 5 | The working groups will look at particular topics , consider the existing legislation and help prepare a discussion document for wider public consultation setting out the various options for reform . |
| 6 | It has 94 rooms and self-catering apartments set around a central pool and bar , around which much of the hotel life revolves . |
| 7 | As a movement in the same direction the German foreign office set up a legal and commercial department in 1885 and the British one acquired a legal adviser in 1893 ( a post of Legal Assistant Under-Secretary had already been created in 1876 ) . |
| 8 | The hypnotic induction sets up a peculiar state of ‘ dissociated consciousness ’ |
| 9 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
| 10 | In order to monitor the sources of recruitment on the programme HCIMA will require centres to complete , for each cohort of students , a standard form setting out the prior qualifications/learning experience for the student group . |
| 11 | In order to monitor the sources of recruitment on the programme HCIMA will require centres to complete , for each cohort of students , a standard form setting out the prior qualifications/learning experience for the student group . |
| 12 | During a 24-hour visit to Argentina on March 2-3 , 1990 , President Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Menem signed a joint declaration setting up a ministerial commission for political co-ordination and integration . |
| 13 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |
| 14 | Odinga , who resigned as Kenya 's Vice-President in 1966 , told a press conference that the NDP would seek formal registration and the repeal of provisions in the national Constitution setting up the single party state . |
| 15 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 16 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 17 | ‘ Valerie , ’ he said to me , ‘ I 'll have to take these two to my mother again , ’ at which the little ones set up an ungrateful wail , ‘ but I 'll be back as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Amalia Cardos de Mendez in the Art of Ancient Mexico sets out a simple plan for the language and goes to great length to explain the Maya calendar . |
| 19 | The promotion-winning team set off a short time ago from the County Ground to tour the town in an open-topped bus , before a civic reception given by Thamesdown Council . |
| 20 | The climate is good , not too hot but with brilliant sunshine to set off the vivid colouring and give shade and modelling to the arcaded treatment of façades . |
| 21 | In the UK , the most notable defection from an international company to set up an independent search business has been that by David Norman and Miles Broadbent , who were both previous Mds of Russell Reynolds in London , and who took with them other colleagues to found Norman Broadbent . |
| 22 | In his speech , the Prime Minister set out the weak position from which he negotiates on economic and monetary union . |
| 23 | In fact I have just received a copy of ‘ Transport in the 1990s ’ , which is an information pamphlet from the European Commission setting out the European Community 's strategy for transport . |
| 24 | In France , the post-war nationalizations set up a tripartite scheme of management with representation of users , public authorities and employees ( Dubois 1975 : 161–3 ; Holter 1982 ) . |
| 25 | In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters . |
| 26 | Two stunning resorts set around a glimmering bay . ’ |
| 27 | The two forged blocks set up a visual field where the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture . |
| 28 | The Labour Party promptly changed its position and in October 1974 ( when the SNP won eleven seats with 30 per cent of the Scottish vote ) promised to bring in legislative devolution setting up a Scottish Assembly with most of the functions of the secretary of state in the hands of a separate Scottish executive responsible to that Assembly . |
| 29 | POLITICAL prevarication is blocking moves to set up an international agency to monitor military activity throughout the world using a network of spy satellites . |
| 30 | Not a full-time neglect , but one which sets her as a decoration on the perimeter of his life as a busy executive setting up a new venture . |