Example sentences of "by setting [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process was assisted in the North by the self-exclusion of Britain from internal Ulster affairs by setting up the Stormont parliament which survived from 1922 to 1972 . |
| 2 | His somewhat thankless task was to attempt to introduce private-sector techniques into the Civil Service by setting up the Property Services Agency . |
| 3 | It took a Labour Government less inhibited than the Tories with their informal links to the amateur élite to bring sport within the ambit of the welfare state by setting up the Sports Council . |
| 4 | The impression of ‘ busyness ’ was achieved by setting up the 1953 Beaver Committee . |
| 5 | Worker participation was a notable achievement , but the Chilean proletariat went further in their radical actions , by setting up the cordones . |
| 6 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 7 | Fortunately , assuming that your model is a collective pitch type , it is possible to reduce the chances of this happening in the early stages by setting up the model in a suitable manner . |
| 8 | But history will record that McLaren solved its problem ( by setting up the car as they had for Spain ) , Hunt was on pole alongside Niki , Niki led the race for eight laps until his engine blew , Hunt then led it but was put under heavy pressure by Depailler , was suffering from the dry heaves inside his helmet and somehow survived to win a race from which Niki garnered nothing . |
| 9 | As well as increasing the maximum number of users per server to 500 from 300 , the new version enables them to bridge to OS/2 , High Performance File System , write-once optical disks and other devices by setting up the connection as a LANtastic shared resource . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you certainly nailed your colours to the mast by setting up the post-mortem . ’ |
| 11 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 12 | By setting up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( CVR ) in April 1990 to investigate human rights abuses under the previous military regime [ see p. 37528 ] , the new government of President Aylwin attempted to establish its authority over the armed forces and , in particular , the C.-in-C. of the army and former President , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte . |
| 13 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 14 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |
| 15 | The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group . |
| 16 | The Elton Committee felt that teachers ' authority in this country would be better protected by setting out the fundamental principles governing that authority in statute . |
| 17 | The referral offers the social worker an immediate opportunity to start to practise family work , by setting out the questions which need clarification . |
| 18 | We can better understand this speech by setting out the levels of deception in parentheses : ( I think [ you think ] { I love you } ) . |
| 19 | Some legislative attempts have been made to structure the exercise of sentencing discretion by setting out the criteria which courts should apply when deciding on a sentence , but these , too , are limited in scope . |
| 20 | Since the question turns on the meaning of the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , the problem is therefore one of statutory interpretation and it will be helpful to start by setting out the immediately relevant provisions of the Act : |
| 21 | If you are asked to discuss , say , Nordenfelt 's case , begin by setting out the facts and decision — do not start in the Middle Ages . |