Example sentences of "to set [adv] [art] [adj] operation " in BNC.

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1 Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws .
2 Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation .
3 Alternatively , the firm can choose to set up a local operation and simply ‘ clone ’ the domestic business in the foreign country .
4 This illustrated the urgency of many commando and other wartime activities when the time needed to set up a special operation was almost impossibly short , but the official records do not show the efforts behind the scenes in preparing the ground .
5 They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle .
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