Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National minority rights came into question in January when Romanians , Croats and Slovaks in Hungary began to set up a joint organization which intended to help the government prepare decisions affecting minority rights . |
| 2 | Hampshire has set up a new post for housing and care in the community . |
| 3 | IBM has set up a toll-free number to handle calls : ( 800 ) IBM-CALL . |
| 4 | The computer company IBM has set up an internal " Environment Council " with a " green senior manager " in every department , in an effort to improve environmental performance . |
| 5 | British Telecom wants to set up a global framework which can offer a complete telecommunications service package to multinationals by reselling spare capacity on the international private line circuits of other US carriers . |
| 6 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 7 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
| 8 | The Church of England has set up a working party to investigate the possibility of placing advertisements on radio and television in a bid to attract more people to the Church . |
| 9 | The Royal Agricultural Society of England has set up a working party , under the chairmanship of Sir Derek Barber , following the challenge laid down by HRH Prince of Wales earlier this year at the society 's annual lecture . |
| 10 | In 1988 Brazil decided to set up a unified and decentralised health system and this process is now under way . |
| 11 | Kasparov and Short have set up a breakaway Professional Chess Association , and are considering bids for a title match , which would almost certainly be staged in London . |
| 12 | To ensure the continued survival of Oslobodjenje , Hajrich has set up a special fund to raise money to rebuild and re-equip the destroyed offices of the newspaper . |
| 13 | Arthur had set up a rural-type training settlement on an island in the middle of the Kokine lake , just outside the university of Rangoon . |
| 14 | Chen Chang-wen , secretary-general of the SEF , and Tang Shubei , deputy director of the TAO , agreed that formal talks on the principle of " one China " would be held early in 1992 , as soon as China had set up a non-governmental counterpart to the SEF . |
| 15 | For example , when Kodak wished to set up a regional distribution centre in Nairobi , it failed to gain permission for ‘ green channel ’ facilities for the re-exports . |
| 16 | Occupational safety officials in South Africa have set up a public inquiry to investigate mercury poisoning of at least three employees of a British-owned toxic waste reprocessing plant at Cato Ridge in Natal . |
| 17 | With the express intent of reducing dependence on South Africa , nine states of southern Africa have set up an economic cooperation association , SADCC . |
| 18 | ICI Australia has set up an imaginative scheme to improve industry/teacher links , whereby one of its employees and one teacher are paired in a scientific expedition alongside a distinguished researcher . |
| 19 | NCIS has set up a special desk to study their operations , which it viewed with ‘ rising alarm ’ . |
| 20 | Sanctioned by staff , a group meeting was held at which Billy suggested setting up a new committee to ‘ get a few things sorted out ’ . |
| 21 | Bennett has set out the supposed pros and cons in the annual report . |
| 22 | SGI has set up a new OEM Operations organisation under the supervision of Todd Johnson , formerly director of SGI 's business development group , who reports to SGI vice president , John Kohler , general manager of the company 's newly created Business Systems Division . |
| 23 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 24 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 25 | In fact , he said , one of the reasons IBM France decided to set up the new division was to cater for software partners and other customers . |
| 26 | The RSPB recommends setting up a conservation programme with a target of one million hectares of surplus farmland to be managed for wildlife by the year 2000 . |
| 27 | The US wanted to set up a working group to study these costs , but other nations rejected the proposal . |
| 28 | In recent months , Sir Keith has set up a national committee to explore some of these possibilities . |
| 29 | In response to demand SCOTVEC has set up a working group of employer and college representatives to develop a new HND in Social Care Management . |
| 30 | After 18 months training with AA in Chicago , Mr Shiratori returned to Tokyo to help set up the new office . |