Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [adv prt] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to compensation received under an out of court settlement , as a result of litigation or from insurers , in the case of such terrible incidents as the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , there will usually be special funds set up to assist the suffering . |
| 2 | The big cities , New York , London , and Liverpool even , can afford to have units set up to encourage the production of films and videos and so on in their areas , in fact there was a report in last Thurs thirtieth of December 's Shropshire Star about Liverpool 's office . |
| 3 | Radiance Strathdee , the author of research carried out for Centrepoint , said this was not enough : ‘ There is a need for the government to get round the table with local authorities , not to lay down guidance , but to look at strategies to set about moving the impasse which exists ’ . |
| 4 | The message is even more explicit in The Four Just Men ( 1939 ) , a tale of derring-do in which some chaps set out to warn the nation of a demonic plan to destroy the British Empire , leaving world domination in one man 's hands . |
| 5 | In conventional trials set up to assess the efficacy of a new drug , the drug is given to a group of patients suffering from a particular illness , and the effects are compared with those obtained in a matched group of patients given a dummy ( or placebo ) drug . |
| 6 | One reason is that it may not leave sufficient motivation for the individuals to set about increasing the value of the company . |
| 7 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 8 | For each key stage , programmes of study are to be drawn up specifying what pupils of different abilities are to be taught in each subject , and attainment targets set out specifying the knowledge , skills and understanding that they are expected to have acquired by the end of the stage . |
| 9 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 10 | An example of one of the more successful RMCs is the Anglian which in its first four years set about becoming a centre of excellence . |
| 11 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 12 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 13 | So the mandarins set about finding an alternative . |
| 14 | All " treaties and agreements " entered into during the Vietnamese occupation must be cancelled , he said , new borders delineated between Cambodia and Vietnam , and special SNC committees set up to control the Phnom Penh adminstration and the police . |
| 15 | The latter are legislative committees set up to take the committee stage of a bill and they have to reflect the division of party strength that exists on the floor of the House . |
| 16 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 17 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |
| 18 | Here consultancies set out to help a client who is in an emergency situation . |
| 19 | A relative newcomer among theories sets out to generalize the description of discontinuities of this type to which its originator , Professor Rene Thom of the Sorbonne , has given the name ‘ catastrophe theory ’ ( Zeeman , 1976 ) . |
| 20 | How do teachers set about creating an environment which encourages children to learn from and with one another ? |
| 21 | Functional courses set out to list the purposes for which students might wish to use language , and then to teach them how to do so . |
| 22 | In comparison to Europe in general , the Democrats and the Republicans may best be characterized as two among a large number of groups setting out to influence the course of the American political process ( we shall examine such groups in chapter 13 ) . |
| 23 | Between them the scientists and philosophers set out to explain a universe , which , after the muddle of the Dark or Middle Ages , seemed to be flooded with clear light . |
| 24 | In America and Britain , even to some extent in Germany , think-tanks set out to influence the government . |
| 25 | Its 1992 reports sets out to give a view of the prospects for travel and tourism on a global basis . |
| 26 | He was fortunate in finding a good post — as a draughtsman of Gothic work — and in the company of congenial colleagues set about enjoying the experiences London had to offer in the 1860s . |
| 27 | Thousands of years ago , when the first sailors set out to explore the world , there were no such things as maps and compasses . |
| 28 | The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level . |