Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv prt] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 2 | In his first season at Upton Park , he became the uncrowned King of the East End , scoring 28 goals in his first season and setting up an unrivalled scoring partnership with Tony Cottee . |
| 3 | Of the rebellion in Mesopotamia he wrote that it could be dealt with by raising two divisions of volunteer local troops , reducing the British administrative staff and setting up an Arab government under the indirect control of a British officer . |
| 4 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 5 | Local opinion denied their involvement in terrorism , and John Hume , local SDLP MP , persuaded his party to demand an official inquiry , failing which it would withdraw from Stormont and set up an alternative assembly … |
| 6 | But with only ten minutes remaining yet another slip-up handed Lawther the opportunity to make it 3-2 and set up an exciting finish which should never have been . |
| 7 | Other statutes created new offences , amended penalties , re-organized the structure of the courts , re-classified the types of offence tried in them , defined the powers of the police , and set up an independent prosecution service . |