Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 2 | I had an interview for a job which is a four year term at the — the job is based there but is to run the exams set up of the four major surgical colleges viz London , Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dublin . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference ( set up under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement — see pp. 34070-73 ) held meetings on July 17 , 1990 [ see p. 37624 ] , on Sept. 14 ( when the Conference displayed some optimism towards solving the problem of determining the precise stage at which the Irish government could directly enter the all-party talks ) and on Feb. 1 , 1991 . |
| 4 | With a crew which included seven Fairbridge trainees from Strathclyde and East Lothian , Spirit of Scotland was one of the scores of sailing ships which set out on the 1993 Tall Ships Race when the starting cannon fired at Newcastle . |
| 5 | The Further and Higher Education Bill implements policies set out in the two White Papers : Education and training for the twenty-first century and Higher education : A new framework . |
| 6 | When a review of the health service was set up following the 1987 general election , it was claimed that our kind of public review would be too slow . |
| 7 | The Serious Fraud Office ( SFO ) was set up under the 1987 Criminal Justice Act in response to a report by the Fraud Trials Committee formed in 1983 as a result of dissatisfaction with the ability of the City of London Fraud Squad to get convictions . |
| 8 | The Occupational Pensions Board , which was set up under the 1973 Social Security Act to monitor and establish minimum standards for private occupational pension schemes , was asked to consider the question of equal status for men and women in occupational pension schemes in 1975 . |
| 9 | The company is being set up as a 50:50 joint venture with the French educational publisher Magnard , which has started to move into general trade publishing with its recent acquisitions of the New Age publisher Dervy and the children 's and general academic imprint Vuibert . |
| 10 | This week Andrew Large , the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , published a report that acknowledged the defects in the regulatory regime set up by the 1986 Financial Services Act . |
| 11 | The rationale underlying the Land Commission Act was set out in a 1965 white paper : |
| 12 | The background to cuts was set out in the 1976 White paper on public Expenditure ( Cmnd 6393 ) : ‘ Popular expectations for improved public services and welfare programmes have not been matched by growth in output or by willingness to forgo improvements in private living standards in favour of these programmes . ’ |
| 13 | That settled upon by the Government , and as set out in the 1967 White Paper , Legislative and Constitutional Implications of United Kingdom Membership ( Cmnd 33021 ) , was to meet the problem by the adoption by Parliament of a self-denying ordinance . |
| 14 | Even so , Britain has made an unusually bad fist of the regulatory structure set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act ; the outcome has been cumbersome and ineffective . |
| 15 | These arguments then lead us to support the third of the options for change set out in the 1992 Green Paper . |
| 16 | The target far exceeds that set out in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , which requires local councils to recycle 25 per cent of waste by the turn of the century . |