Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would a trust , for example to construct a public building or to set up a private monument , actually be enforced as such ? |
| 2 | Mrs Peysner hopes that the money will be used instead to improve day facilities for this group at other homes or to set up a mobile day unit . |
| 3 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 4 | to begin working on next year 's pay claim and to set up a working group to consider new strategies for the campaign ; |
| 5 | What a waste of time , we all know that the county council is the the highway authority and is fully responsible for traffic management , we 're in a minority and to set up a working party is a complete waste of time . . |
| 6 | But Leeds City found a saviour in Mr J. Connor , secretary of the West Riding Football Association , who with four other local citizens decided to form a syndicate , with himself as chairman , to keep the club at Elland Road , and to set up a limited liability company . |
| 7 | The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial . |
| 8 | Now those same partners gave their blessing to the idea of the two solicitors moving out of their own offices , and setting up a temporary Law Centre where everyone involved could get together and fight for the return of the children ; they would fight for justice , and ultimately a judicial inquiry . |
| 9 | Her first challenge will be trying to account for the project 's funding , providing health statistics and setting up a new bookkeeping system for the hospital that is simple enough for people to use when she has gone . |
| 10 | In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange . |
| 11 | Act 4 of 1984 contained detailed provisions of unfair competition and was re-enacted by statute 86 of 1990 prohibiting ‘ unfair conduct on the market ’ and setting up a virtual equivalent of a monopolies and mergers commission . |
| 12 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 13 | Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’ |
| 14 | No no no no you basically the company is pulled out of the ordinary high street travel business and set up a new concept in business travel . |
| 15 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |
| 16 | Swansea were packed with six of the current Welsh side and set up a mouthwatering revenge mission for the national side on November 21 . |
| 17 | It abolished the distinction between elementary and higher education , and set up a unified system of free , compulsory schooling from the age of 5 to 15 ( to be raised when practicable to 16 ) . |
| 18 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 19 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 20 | Noell died a rich but not fabulously wealthy man , having already settled much of his property and set up a substantial charity in his native town . |
| 21 | Tries by Allan Bateman and Colin Laity brought the home team back into the hunt and set up a stirring finale to the heavyweight contest . |
| 22 | Instead it capped the advanced further education pool for 1979–80 and set up a Working Group to examine the future management of the pool . |
| 23 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 24 | Collaborative research and cross-licensing of patents : for sound reasons — high fixed costs , economies of scale , and risk-sharing — firms may pool research and development ( R&D ) resources and set up a common R&D agency . |
| 25 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 26 | And in 9 months , local people raised £600,000 and set up a charitable trust to run the hospital . |
| 27 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 28 | An indication of the expectations the Act has aroused among fund managers can be gauged from the fact that , just over a year ago , merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson decided to bring together previously dispersed skills and set up a specialised division , headed by Rupert Marlow , to look after their charities fund management . |
| 29 | They left Lawton with Grant to guard the bridge area , and set about a systematic search of the superstructure . |
| 30 | In essence , the Lady of the Hearth represents the way in which we choose and set out a bounded space in which to live , the fire we light at its centre , and the way we use the heat which the fire provides . |