Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne loved a dare , and Terry Rourke 's appeal had been frank and animal — he had excited her , and it had been simple for her to lie to her mother , to set out to go to a girlfriend 's home on the following afternoon and meet Terry instead . |
| 2 | But he opposed any suggestion that representatives of the environmental movement might sit on the technical committees set up to decide on the safety of any release of genetically manipulated organisms into the environment . |
| 3 | I 'm absolutely delighted that we achieved what we set out to do at the beginning of the week , which was to ensure that the Ryder Cup stayed on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 4 | Why , I 'm going to do what I set out to do at the start — I 'm going to make sure that bastard marries you ! ’ |
| 5 | I hope they do what they set out to do for the sake of the people of West Belfast . |
| 6 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 7 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 8 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 9 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 10 | Before running the Validation program , ensure that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been set up to point to the configuration file for the LIFESPAN system being checked . |
| 11 | I helped set up WIN after the war and was one of its representatives in London . |
| 12 | To this end Payroll/Personnel administration departments were set up reporting to the Site Personnel Managers . |
| 13 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 14 | No but the national accounts department is set up to deal with the head offices of of the key multiples and national accounts . |
| 15 | SeaDocs was set up to act as a depositary-custodian of the paper based original bill as well as a registry of bill of lading negotiations . |
| 16 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 17 | At the same time Sir David Maxwell Fyfe persistently refused the requests of Sir Robert Boothby in Parliament that a Royal Commission should be set up to enquire into the nature and treatment of homosexuality . |
| 18 | This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe . |
| 19 | Extension services were set up to focus upon a target population of every couple , the wife of which was aged 15–44 years , backed up by medical services and financial incentives to adopters . |
| 20 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 21 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 22 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |
| 23 | In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead . |
| 24 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 25 | Word processors are obviously going to incorporate many of the features found in page makeup or document assembly programs ; text will simply be passed to a parameter file called , say , REPORT and the document will automatically be set out according to the house style . |
| 26 | To my knowledge there has been no research that has set out to study from the start how far a child 's attachment to a new family or carer is impeded or not or whether ‘ the child 's personality will be damaged ’ where a birth parent or relative keeps contact whilst the child is with psychological parents . |
| 27 | When the person throws the ball , the batter hits it as far as possible and then sets off to run round the obstacle placed at right angles . |
| 28 | NEC in Japan has adopted the corporate slogan ‘ C & C ’ — computers and communications — to indicate the basis on which it is setting out to compete across the world with IBM and many others . |
| 29 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 30 | She wished him goodnight , and set off to walk up the hill , her feet scarcely touching the ground . |