Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under pressure from environmental critics and rapid population growth , Las Vegas has set up a water authority to manage supplies . |
| 2 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Local authorities in countries bordering the North Sea have set up an organization , Kimo , for the purpose of sharing information on technology and good practice with the ultimate aim of improving the coastal and marine environments while also safeguarding economic prosperity . |
| 7 | Dr Russell had set up the monitor when Belinda returned . |
| 8 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 9 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 10 | , President Bush has set up a President 's Commission on Environmental Quality , whose brief is to report within two years on ways in which the marketplace may be tapped for environmental protection . |
| 11 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 12 | In recent months , Sir Keith has set up a national committee to explore some of these possibilities . |
| 13 | Now Mr Robertson plans to set up a support group for Swindon people growing up with the problems of different cultures at home and outside . |
| 14 | Three years on , Mr Garnett has set up a company — Wisdom Agricultural — to make and market the device . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The sculptor Rob Blote has set up a gallery in his home in Wassenaar with the specific purpose of selling works of art which the Dutch government had purchased through the BKR Scheme . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Automobile Association was established on 26 June 1905 , a few months after Charles Jarrott and William Letts had set up a warning system to advise motorists of police speed traps on some sections of the London to Brighton road . |
| 20 | Paul and Pauline Lavery have set up a branch of the National Meningitis Trust after losing toddler Ian . |
| 21 | In 1891 , in an essay called ‘ The moral philosopher and the moral life ’ , William James had set out the essence of the realist 's case . |
| 22 | Dave Brown has set up the Canoe Polo Sports Clinic . |