Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Peysner hopes that the money will be used instead to improve day facilities for this group at other homes or to set up a mobile day unit . |
| 2 | Banks can thus cut costs by absorbing their leasing , factoring and other subsidiaries and setting up a unified sales team for many of their products . |
| 3 | An indication of the expectations the Act has aroused among fund managers can be gauged from the fact that , just over a year ago , merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson decided to bring together previously dispersed skills and set up a specialised division , headed by Rupert Marlow , to look after their charities fund management . |
| 4 | Before leaving the ground floor , make your notes and sketches and set out the approximate costs of making good the defects and of any necessary alterations . |
| 5 | Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run . |
| 6 | Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator Terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run . |
| 7 | Other whaling nations recognised the destruction of whale stocks and set up the International Whaling Commission in 1946 to control international whaling , Just when Japan was developing her whaling industry to full commercial efficiency . |
| 8 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 9 | Collaborative research and cross-licensing of patents : for sound reasons — high fixed costs , economies of scale , and risk-sharing — firms may pool research and development ( R&D ) resources and set up a common R&D agency . |
| 10 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 11 | Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’ |
| 12 | Japanese handpainted pictures adorn the walls and set off the elegant porcelain figurines , while the walnut dining table is from Hong Kong . |