Example sentences of "set [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ .
2 I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years .
3 This downhill was set down the long-established OK course from Bellewarde to La Daille ; the two in February will be on the new Olympic piste carved down the precipitate north-east face on to the very heart of the village .
4 The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart .
5 Fragments of rock , and of Mait , flung backwards by the blast , also set off the other bomb and in moments , several tens of yards of ceiling had collapsed in .
6 Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms .
7 On the following day the jury signed a verdict that the 1277 perambulation still set forth the true bounds .
8 Everything of mine at that stage was still packed , but I had set aside a separate box for tea and coffee things so tea was easy to arrange .
9 Plans to transfer the management of the schemes to community organisations are almost complete , and Liz Taylor 's pet Aids charity , AMFAR , has set aside a small sum to fund them .
10 Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work .
11 Since March 1990 Mid Glamorgan 's community drug team has seen a progressive increase in the number of users of anabolic steroids attending general needle exchange clinics and has therefore set up a separate service for these users .
12 He had set up a 10-strong Renewable Energy Advisory Group ( REAG ) .
13 It has set up a joint venture with Hungary 's state-owned producer , which makes 40% of the country 's cigarettes .
14 Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals , Japan , and ICI Resins have set up a joint venture for the marketing and production of styrene acrylic and polyester photocopier toner resins .
15 There are some helpful rationalisations afoot : Mercury , together with 11 other telecomms companies , has recently set up a joint venture , FNA , to provide ‘ unified communications services ’ between the financial centres of the world .
16 For example , we have set up a joint working party with Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise for this purpose .
17 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 .
18 England 's batsmen , led by Robin Smith , had set up a perfect platform to build the huge total that would have put Sri Lanka under great pressure .
19 THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry .
20 The economics department at Ripon Grammar School have set up a small business producing items connected with the history of the city .
21 It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching .
22 At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent .
23 Recently , Mike Lester has recognized the need to co-ordinate and develop the catering side of the operations , and has set up a small Pub Catering Department under the Estates division .
24 Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 .
25 In response , SCOTVEC recently set up a small group to consider how to extend the construction option to cover building services , by the addition of extra modules .
26 She teaches literacy , numeracy and music to a variety of patients from the centre , and has set up a small bible group with the chaplain .
27 The Korean government quickly set up a rival organization to the ITF , called the World Taekwondo Federation ( WTF ) .
28 IBM has set up a toll-free number to handle calls : ( 800 ) IBM-CALL .
29 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) announced on Sept. 3 that it had set up a short-term technical advice scheme for the Soviet Union .
30 It has also set up a worldwide value-added reseller and distribution channel to market CA-Unicenter and a new line of Unix products .
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