Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] 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 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
3 | 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 ’ . |
4 | In 1988 Brazil decided to set up a unified and decentralised health system and this process is now under way . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Sanctioned by staff , a group meeting was held at which Billy suggested setting up a new committee to ‘ get a few things sorted out ’ . |
9 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The US wanted to set up a working group to study these costs , but other nations rejected the proposal . |
12 | Rourke had set up the whole annoying episode . |
13 | Twice former title-holder Richard Corsie advanced to set up an all-Scottish second-round clash with Gourlay when he coasted to a straight-sets win over South Africa 's Bill Moseley . |
14 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
15 | This astonishing success , considering the size of his forces and the difficulty of much of the terrain over which he fought , only succeeded in outraging Alfonso , who seems to have believed — or been persuaded to believe — that El Cid intended to set up a rival kingdom in Valencia . |
16 | But Mancini 's basic point — that Gloucester had set up a fake attack on himself as an excuse to deal with Hastings — seems eminently plausible . |
17 | But Mancini 's basic point — that Gloucester had set up a fake attack on himself as an excuse to deal with Hastings — seems eminently plausible . |
18 | Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ : |