Example sentences of "it set [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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1 It set up a succession of bodies to deal with the problem , but in 1922 it actually cut back expenditure , already insufficient , in this sphere .
2 Mr Suharto has been tempting it back into his orbit by , for example , encouraging a Chinese business group to help it set up a bank , thus giving the NU 's members a useful stake in the economic largesse that the government can dispense .
3 In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates .
4 So before Forte Travelodge installed a new booking system it set up a trial in a mock-up of its operations centre .
5 Morton 's first overseas venture was in the UK in 1964 , when it set up a joint venture in Coventry to distribute the LP polymer .
6 Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London .
7 In January 1991 , it set up a server centre , the smallest in Spain , to take advantage of Telefonica de Espana SA 's viewdata service .
8 It set up a House of Lords Select Committee in 1881 to examine the extent of juvenile prostitution .
9 But it set up a pattern of eating which would take Odette years to break .
10 Even so , it set up a security precaution that had occurred to me when I 'd seen the cylinder .
11 The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education .
12 She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel .
13 When it met after the Conference it set up a subcommittee to draft acceptable Standing Orders with which it could approach the Labour Party National Executive .
14 The last word came out fiercely and the force of it set off a slow noise from the crowd , like surf on a beach .
15 Yesterday evening , for instance , I realized that I was smiling to myself ( I was thinking about writing this minute ! ) and it set off a substantial debate , conducted entirely in silence .
16 It gave a clear hint that the threat could come from either the public or the private sectors , and it set out a number of principles for handling personal information which , as the Younger Principles , have become famous ; they survive in recognisable form in the Schedule of the Data Protection Act of 1984 , where they assume an unusual importance .
17 It set out a timetable for major political changes , starting with the signing of the new Union Treaty , which was expected to be ready within three months .
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