Example sentences of "to set [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | insists on a proper response to complaints and on action to set right the problems behind them . |
| 2 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 3 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 4 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 5 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 6 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 7 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 8 | The day before it was due to take effect , the tenant , having learnt of the order , made an application to set aside the order for possession and the judgment which had resulted in that order . |
| 9 | The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision . |
| 10 | The so-called Endeavour Accord , which provided for the immediate lifting of the blockade and for the restoration of communications , education , health and power services , was reached after the two sides agreed to set aside the independence question for further talks within the next eight weeks . |
| 11 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 12 | A registrar having made that order , and the administrators having refused to disclose that statement to the accountants , the accountants applied to the court for leave under rule 9.5 of the Rules of 1986 to inspect the statement of grounds and to set aside the registrar 's order . |
| 13 | Morritt J. refused the application for leave to inspect but Hoffmann J. granted the application to set aside the registrar 's order . |
| 14 | That course would doubtless prompt an application by the P.C.A. to set aside the subpoena on grounds of public interest immunity . |
| 15 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 16 | In such circumstances the court has the power to make such order as it thinks fit ( IA 1986 , s238(3) ) including the right to set aside the transaction . |
| 17 | ‘ I do not find it easy , ’ said Abbot Radulfus , with a distinct chill in his voice , ‘ to set aside the issue of murder . |
| 18 | The justices purported to set aside the conviction 29 days after the finding of guilt and none of the convicting justices had been a party to the decision to set it aside , so neither of the two conditions obtained . |
| 19 | Held , dismissing the appeal , the issue was whether , on June 13 , the justices had any jurisdiction to set aside the convictions recorded on May 16 . |
| 20 | The trial judge refused , however , to set aside the charge , ‘ it not having been established that the bank or its officers exercised any undue influence over Mrs. Perry . ’ |
| 21 | This is particularly unfortunate because in deciding to set aside the demand the judge exercised a discretion , and on this appeal I am discharging an appellate jurisdiction and not hearing the matter afresh and exercising my own discretion : see In re Gilmartin ( A Bankrupt ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 513 . |
| 22 | The defendants asserted their privilege against making possibly incriminating disclosure by what seems to me the unusual step of incorporating in a summons their application to set aside the paragraphs of Buckley J. 's order which appeared likely to upset that privilege and supporting that application by affidavits expressing their apprehensions in vague terms . |
| 23 | Between that date and 11 February 1987 the plaintiffs succeeded in raising a sum sufficient to meet the liabilities , the maximum amount of which had been quantified in the course of proceedings by Mr. Shamji who had sought unsuccessfully to set aside the appointment of the receivers . |
| 24 | When the statutory demand is based on a judgment , the court will not normally go behind the judgment and inquire into the validity of the debt nor will it adjourn the application to await the result of an application to set aside the judgment ( Practice Direction , 6 January 1987 , ( 1987 ) 1 All ER 607 ) . |
| 25 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |
| 26 | Delivery of a defence is not waiver of an irregularity , but the defendant must promptly apply to set aside the proceedings and take no other step meanwhile ( Ord 9 , r 13 ) . |
| 27 | In consequence there are no autumn colours to be viewed in surroundings that look as though there should be — no golds and flaming reds to set off the whites , blues and blacks of snow , water and rock . |
| 28 | There is formality … such as the Elizabethan knot garden , with its tiny box hedging … and the walk of Lime trees.But such order simply helps to set off the flower borders which overflow with colour.Here can be found a blue and white monkshood … the towering flower spikes of acanthus , commonly known as bears britches … crimson penstemon blooms , and the perennially popular day lily . |
| 29 | To set off the blues , I used white Shasta daisies , white bergenias and the silver foliage of pearly everlasting , Anaphalis cinnamomea . |
| 30 | Howard is wearing a very pale grey suit , with a pale blue shirt and a white silk tie , to set off the suntan he has acquired in the country . |