Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's policy paper contained provisions for state-aided settlement schemes to encourage black farmers to set up on 485,000 hectares of government land . |
| 2 | The Plaintiff must set down within six months of close of pleadings ; if no request is made within 15 months , the action is automatically struck out . |
| 3 | Subtle metallic sheens and bold black spots and lines set off with red areas of finnage , combine to produce a truly pretty fish . |
| 4 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 5 | Right hand gear change , non-synchromesh gearbox and in a very odd posture for driving , they set off for 5 laps in these amazing cars . |
| 6 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 7 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 8 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 9 | From the end of the seventeenth century , turnpike trusts set up under private acts of parliament began to appear . |
| 10 | In May 1835 , the relieving officer of the new Chailey Union was set on by thirty men in Ringmer , demanding ‘ money or blood ’ ; they got their relief in cash instead of the food tickets he offered . |
| 11 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 12 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 13 | This is only to be expected , since the Brasserie has been set up along similar lines to L'Auberge ( i.e. it has the same staff ) . |
| 14 | Trestles were being set up along both sides of the room , but only a few sombrely dressed ladies were seated , the rest of the company apparently preferring to mill about in the centre of the hall . |
| 15 | Perhaps we will even copy the German Gruppe in which the decentralized units are set up as separate companies with their own top managements . |
| 16 | The PHC approach proposed at Alma Ata was set up with five principles in mind : |
| 17 | A regulatory body , OFGAS , was set up with similar responsibilities to OFTEL . |
| 18 | The Oakes Report , which appeared exactly one year after the setting-up of the committee , made a number of recommendations of which perhaps the most important was that an independent national body be set up with specific terms of reference to include the ‘ general oversight of the development of maintained higher education ’ and the responsibility to ‘ collect , analyse and present where appropriate in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science and the University Grants Committee information affecting the demand for and supply of higher education in the maintained sector ’ . |
| 19 | Each one must be set up with fail-safe guides for a true and even curve . |
| 20 | A democratic , parliamentary system of government has been set up with free elections at least once every five years . |
| 21 | Running was also a popular way of passing the time int he camps set up around military installations in Iraq . |
| 22 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |
| 23 | GIBSON 'S VIRTUAL reality- noir best seller was optioned in 1985 by Cabanas Roy Productions , set up by two kids at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel who , with backing from the bored wife of a prominent New York plastic surgeon , decided to become movie producers . |
| 24 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 25 | A new international organisation , the Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ) , has been set up by environmental groups with the aim of setting worldwide standards for good forest management . |
| 26 | DSD was set up by 600 enterprises in response to legislation requiring industry to collect and recycle the packaging it produces . |
| 27 | Apart from small orders , usually of nuns , set up by local bishops for local needs , religious orders have always had considerable independence from the bishops . |
| 28 | It was set up by three sisters with funds from their family 's whisky business . |
| 29 | This was a pattern to be followed when UDCs were set up in other areas in succeeding years . |
| 30 | Duty rotas of guardians , who may be called upon at short notice , have been set up in many areas for this purpose . |