Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 2 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 6 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 7 | Strathclyde , a huge left-Labour-controlled council , had not even set up the required risk-capital fund . |
| 8 | It was reported on Feb. 6 that a presidential decree of Jan. 29 had set up the Atomic Energy Ministry ( Minatom ) of the Russian Federation . |
| 9 | After 18 months training with AA in Chicago , Mr Shiratori returned to Tokyo to help set up the new office . |
| 10 | Now The Ridings Society , the Association of British Counties , the Yorkshire Society and the East Riding Action Group have set up the new organisation to press the case for the Yorkshire boundaries to be restored . |
| 11 | The Ridings Society , the Association of British Counties , the Yorkshire Society and the East Riding Action Group have set up the new organisation to press the case for the Yorkshire boundaries to be restored . |
| 12 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
| 13 | In a bid to boost environmentally-friendly tourism , the Broads Authority and Eastern Electricity have set up the first of a series of recharging points for electric boats on the northern rivers of the Broads . |
| 14 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 15 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 16 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 17 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 18 | To counteract that Murphy has set up the Edinburgh-based PR Centre . |
| 19 | BOSS have set up the ME-6 to work in two different ways : it can be left to recall programmed patches or , by using the manual programming button , be set to operate like a series of pedals with each footswitch activating an effect in real time . |
| 20 | To promote their interests , and to provide a forum for the expression of opinions , the RMC 's set up the Regional Management Centres Association ( RMCS ) in the mid-1970s . |
| 21 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 22 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 23 | The call for a probe follows a letter sent to Sunday Life last week by inmates in the powderkeg jail who have set up the Concerned Prisoners For Justice Committee . |
| 24 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 25 | Rourke had set up the whole annoying episode . |
| 26 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |
| 27 | Kirin Brewery Co has set up the 25,000 square metre Hokuriku beer park which is open to the public and can brew up to 1m hectolitres of beer per year . |
| 28 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 29 | Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts . |
| 30 | Erm , the salmon pages set out the proposed strategy to meet those guidelines , and as I say , we 'll pick those up as we move through . |