Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this was Gold Cup day , and Norton 's Coin had a very small supporting role in a performance that Thursday afternoon which would see the hugely popular grey Desert Orchid set off fresh waves of fanaticism with a second victory in the most coveted prize of the National Hunt season . |
| 2 | In terms of what they were doing , they were crude , heavy-handed models , more likely to destroy the brain than control it ; systems of blocks and stimulae that set off whole chains of unwanted chemical and electrical responses . |
| 3 | This would of itself set off ecumenical vibrations such that , although it could not be called a ‘ Council of reunion ’ like Florence , it could be a Council leading towards what he called ‘ the recomposition of the whole mystical flock of Christ ’ . |
| 4 | Termites and ants do it seasonally when the time comes for them to mate , disperse and set up new colonies . |
| 5 | In the past year , five electronics firms have either expanded or set up new factories in Glenrothes , creating extra work for a couple of hundred people . |
| 6 | While Gainsborough was becoming enfeebled , nothing was being done outside Ealing and Independent Producers to bring on talent or set up new centres of production strength . |
| 7 | When local government reorganization in 1974 led to Sheffield being ordered by the national Labour Party to disband these structures , the city 's labour movement set up other channels of influence , and the trade union delegates were elected directly to the new District Labour Party , which in turn monitored the activities of the new District Council . |
| 8 | It set up complex criteria . |
| 9 | The summit set up working parties to examine specific issues of regional co-operation , and produced outline agreements on a number of economic initiatives including the construction of new road , rail and telecommunications links . |
| 10 | In the following two years most of the major unions , and the TUC itself , set up working parties and produced a range of discussion documents and policy statements . |
| 11 | Users can be forced to change their passwords at set intervals , and you can examine an audit trail of a user 's previous passwords , and set up temporary accounts . |
| 12 | In the United States , there was a recognition that interdisciplinary proposals could ‘ fall between the cracks ’ ( Porter and Rossini ) , and the National Science Foundation set up separate panels to review proposals which fell into this category . |
| 13 | He settled into an export-import office in Bush House in the Strand , and set up parallel networks of secret intelligence agents to cover the penetrated areas , using the codename Z and avoiding the use of wireless . |
| 14 | The clampdown has exposed the close links between landowners , the security forces and the cocaine cartels , who set up paramilitary squads to ‘ clean out ’ left-wing activists from rural areas such as the Magdalena Medio . |
| 15 | Yvonne Simpson , honorary secretary of the BDA 's Darlington branch , said many hospitals had now gone beyond special staff and set up diabetic units staffed by consultants . |
| 16 | Seeing that there was commercial potential in what they were doing , in March 1989 she and a colleague set up Immune Systems Ltd , a biotechnology company that develops and markets applications of monoclonal antibodies . |
| 17 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 18 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 19 | It advised a future Conservative cabinet to : ( i ) build up stocks of coal at power stations ; ( ii ) plan contingency coal imports ; ( iii ) introduce dual oil and coal-fired burning in power stations ; ( iv ) cut the social security entitlements of strikers ; and finally , ( v ) set up mobile police squads to deal with flying pickets and obtain sufficient numbers of ‘ reliable ’ non-union drivers to cross picket lines . |
| 20 | Instead they should restrict access to plants , control contracts and set up local industries to capitalise on biodiversity . |
| 21 | A pool is also a focus of attention and you can use plants with contrasting flower and foliage that set up interesting patterns in their own right . |
| 22 | He liked the place , and set up permanent premises here later . |
| 23 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 24 | There may.be a need to decentralize and set up semi-autonomous subsidiaries or affiliates . |
| 25 | Typically such a group starts out as a married couple ; the couple acquire children ; the children grow up , marry and set up nuclear households of their own ; the original household declines in size and is finally wiped out by death . |
| 26 | Where woman-centred feminists address class specifically , they often equate femaleness with an oppressed biological ‘ sex class ’ , set up working-class women as the embodiment of this class , and finger middle-class women as sell-outs to the male sex class . |
| 27 | And they set up little communities |
| 28 | If the former , have they made the point sufficiently clear , shown the foundation on which they are building , and set up adequate defences against Feuerbach 's criticisms ? |
| 29 | The minister , Richard Crossman , set up sub-regional studies , conducted by joint teams from local authorities , as in the Coventry-Solihull-Warwickshire study ( 1971 ) . |
| 30 | BETWEEN rounds , two a day at that period , Cotton and Toots would stroll to the car park where the chauffeur unpacked the Fortnum and Mason hamper from the back of the hired Rolls and set up folding chairs and table for an al fresco repast of caviar and champagne . |