Example sentences of "set [adv] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 2 | A clever employee would be able to set up business outside the restricted area and be able to serve former customers from there if ( a ) did not exist . |
| 3 | Set aside 100g/4oz of the green icing . |
| 4 | THREE women widowed in the Gulf war have been told by Government officials that they will not set aside money from the publicly-donated Gulf Trust to help them with an education fund for their children . |
| 5 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 6 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 7 | The council has set aside £450,000 in the coming year to buy and demolish the houses , the oldest terraced properties in Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 9 | It uses experiments to measure its subjects ' behavioural components , and sets up psychologists as the neutral agents of these experiments . |
| 10 | Our research suggests that after the sale of the music business to Thorn , the trusts would have got about four hundred and fifty million pounds , even after paying off debts and setting aside money for the initial expansion of Virgin Atlantic , that would still leave about two hundred and fifty million . |
| 11 | They looked to be all one way traffic as Abingdon 's mid-field dominated the game , setting up chances for the front runners , but the final touch was always missing . |
| 12 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Armed insurgents were reported yesterday to be setting up camps in the hilly terrain of Nagorny Karabakh as tensions between the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan threatened to erupt into full-scale confrontation . |
| 13 | As earnest of its intentions , the new Soviet government established a People 's Commissariat of Nationalities ( Narkomnats ) under Stalin 's direction , and this set up commissions for the main nationalities . |