Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 2 | Set up in 1979 under the chairmanship of Anthony Ramp ton , its original brief was primarily concerned with the causes of ethnic minority , and especially ‘ West Indian ’ , ‘ underachievement ’ . |
| 3 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 4 | Set up in 1942 under the unpromising name of the Taxation and Financial Relations Committee , the TAC was designed to provide a forum ( and perhaps a safety valve ) for the growing number of business members who at that time were excluded from Council membership , but who wished to contribute their business experience to the consideration of taxation and financial issues . |
| 5 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 7 | The Hazards Forum was set up in 1989 by the engineering institutions to assemble and exchange ideas on the management of risks and hazards . |
| 8 | It was set up in 1981 by the British water industry in response to the United Nations ' Water Decade of 1981 to 1990 . |
| 9 | A confederated employers ' organisation was set up in 1919 at the behest of the state which wanted a partner for the application of the new law on collective wage agreements . |
| 10 | This court was set up in 1971 by the Courts Act . |
| 11 | A basic training working party was set up in 1986 with the task of designing a national basic training common core . |
| 12 | The Community Support Anti-waste Scheme ( CSAWS ) was set up in 1976 with the following aims : to promote the recycling of materials ; to give support to the government 's anti-waste programme ; to provide employment for a cross section of the community ; and to stimulate industrial , community and charitable organisations to participate in the collection and recycling of waste materials . |
| 13 | Consequently as a memorial to Helen , and in or der to benefit other sick children , the above Trust Fund was set up in 1985 with the object of sending a sick child of any denomination , together with a parent , to Lourdes each year . |
| 14 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |
| 15 | Entrust was set up in 1982 with the aim of stimulating the development of the small firms sector in Tyne and Wear . |
| 16 | These aspirations were shared by the Beveridge committee on social insurance which was set up in 1941 at the same time as the Uthwatt committee and the Scott committee . |
| 17 | Community Forests , funded by the Forestry and Countryside Commissions , were set up in 1990 on the outskirts of major cities . |
| 18 | The National Land Fund had been set up in 1946 as the nation 's war memorial . |
| 19 | Because ZFM was set up in 1967 at the insistence of the military , who argued that economic development in the Amazon basin was necessary for national security , its managing authority , SUFRAMA ( Superintendencia da Zona Franca de Manaus ) is responsible to Defence rather than Trade . |
| 20 | The society was set up in 1910 in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding the disparaging remarks of Sir George Birdwood [ q.v. ] about Indian art . |
| 21 | Ostensibly set up in 1928 with the aim of promoting the development of French proletarian literature and propagating the sectarian cultural views of RAPP ( the Association of Soviet Proletarian Writers ) , Monde became in the hands of Barbusse the site of cultural collaboration between communists and non-communists alike . |
| 22 | Motability was set up in 1977 on the initiative of the government to help holders of mobility allowance and war pensioners ' mobility supplement use their allowance to obtain a vehicle . |
| 23 | As a result , a working group was set up in 1977 under the Chairmanship of Mr Gordon Oakes , the then Minister of State at the DES , to consider the management and financing of advanced further education . |
| 24 | ANDRA was set up in 1977 under the auspices of the atomic energy commission ( Commissariat à l'Énergie atomique ) and its sister organization , the state nuclear corporation ( Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires ) . |
| 25 | VIA Rail was set up in 1977 after the competing giants , Canadian Pacific , now grown into a huge conglomerate , and its nationalised rival Canadian National had found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight . |
| 26 | The organisation developed as a branch of the Kanisius Foundation which was set up in 1917 by the Society of Jesus to supervise a network of schools . |
| 27 | He found himself stymied by an old oppo of mine when setting out on one of the Bielefeld Viaduct sorties with Tallboys . |
| 28 | These time-fused torpedoes fired , Micky Wynn set off at 0230 for the sea down river , while Commander Ryder moved into midstream to check the position , coming between the wrecks — five MLs were now blazing hulks — to within 250 yards ( 230m ) of the Mole 's batteries as Able Seaman Savage and his mate , AB F.A . |
| 29 | The private monopoly of radio set manufacturers , set up in 1922 from the applicants for government broadcasting licences , was turned into a public monopoly : the British Broadcasting Corporation . |
| 30 | A working party set up in 1966 by the Yorkshire Council of Social Services to study regional preparation for retirement ( Yorkshire Council of Social Services 1966 ) reported an encouraging level of interest on the part of larger industrial enterprises , but a relative lack of concern in the retail trade , commerce , and smaller industrial units . |