Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 2 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 3 | They have been exacerbated by rumours that ethnic Germans from Soviet Asia are to be moved into the Kaliningrad region and allowed to set up an autonomous republic there . |
| 4 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |
| 5 | In Robb v Green [ 1895 ] 2 QB 315 the defendant , employed by the plaintiff as the manager of his business , surreptitiously copied from the plaintiff 's order book a list of names and addresses of customers with the intention of soliciting them after he had left employment and had set up a similar business on his own . |
| 6 | At the time , I was particularly enthusiastic about the possibility of the involvement of one of the major neurotransmitters , acetylcholine , in memory formation , and had set up a simple , fast assay for the brain 's acetylcholine receptor ( called the muscarinic receptor , to distinguish it from other types of acetylcholine receptor ) . |
| 7 | The threat from Catholics was constantly raised by him , for example , when he linked the failures of foreign policies with the activities of domestic papists ( 1625 ) and raised the bogy of their ‘ swarming ’ in the suburbs , claiming that in his neighbourhood of Covent Garden they outnumbered Protestants by three to one and had set up an autonomous community too strong for ‘ us the justices ’ to ‘ cast out ’ . |