Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops . |
| 2 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |
| 3 | The existence of some could not be disclosed on security grounds ; others are set up to do a particular job and then wound up . |
| 4 | Once the outlines for the pages have been set up using a system of ‘ style sheets ’ text and graphics are merged in a single operation . |
| 5 | This sort of work frequently benefits from being set up to create a triangle , so that each group has some relationship with the other two , each group needs and services the other two . |
| 6 | Operation Osprey has now been set up to tackle a fresh wave … a team of detectives are trying to establish a concrete link between the cases [ Craven is talking against a backcloth of computers ] . |
| 7 | In the spring a weekly journal , Bezbozhnik , was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign . |
| 8 | Some say the lion was set up to celebrate a victory over the Venetians — although that seems barely credible , a defeated , down-trodden beast being the more usual symbol for a defeated enemy — others that it simply marks the position of the old eastern gate , through which travellers to and from Venice would go . |
| 9 | On 27 March 1934 , a National Declaration Committee was set up to organize a ballot on the British attitude to the League of Nations . |
| 10 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 11 | There was a youth group being set up to perform a play which was about teenage gay men and lesbians and their experiences . |
| 12 | As the sphere becomes superconducting , surface currents are set up producing a magnetic flux opposite to that already existing inside the material . |
| 13 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 14 | The USRC was therefore set up to play a role like that of the Conservative Research Department after 1929 , but more unofficially . |
| 15 | The courts had been set up to administer a new penal code , unveiled on Sept. 7 , in which traditional written trials were to be replaced by public oral trials for criminal cases . |
| 16 | Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside . |
| 17 | Documents-only arbitrations have been set up to provide a simple means of resolving complaints by consumers in a number of industries , such as travel and telephones . |
| 18 | — A six-month pilot scheme is being set up to provide a drop-in facility at Redcar Health Centre , Coatham Road , Redcar . |
| 19 | The scheme was set up to encourage a broader section of the public to buy works of art by living artists , thus opening up the art market while at the same time helping artists to earn an income . |
| 20 | A subsidiary publishing company , Alma Books , has been set up to produce a number of guide books and the Campaign also works with commercial publishers to produce such titles as Classic Town and Country Pubs and Beer , Bed and Breakfast . |
| 21 | At an in-service course which she led three months later it was proposed and agreed that a working party should be set up to produce a draft policy for links with parents and the community . |
| 22 | In the early 1980s a government-funded Japanese project was set up to develop a fifth-generation computer . |
| 23 | WOMEN AGAINST WAR IN THE GULF ( WAW-ITG ) was recently set up to build a mass women 's campaign within the wider anti-war movement . |
| 24 | A local committee was set up to organise a remembrance weekend , publish a book telling the story of WP-O and arrange a small exhibition . |
| 25 | Curved steps are set out using a stringline or batten from a peg set at the centre point . |
| 26 | ‘ The facts you have set out make a sorry tale indeed . ’ |
| 27 | I do not recognise in your description of an employer ‘ frivolously testing his rights to its limits ’ the port employers or British Rail , which both this summer deliberately set out to overturn a majority strike ballot by manipulating the legal process . |
| 28 | ‘ Surely , no one could be so cruel as to deliberately set out to starve a child to death ? ’ |
| 29 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 30 | But the law has never set out to protect a subject who condemns himself whilst acting of his own free will . |