Example sentences of "set [adv] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But what else would automatically set aside an existing will unless he made a new one ? |
2 | Foucault thus does not merely set up an alternative history , but contends that that alternative is part of a displacement that is in the process of replacing the history that preceded it . |
3 | Any strong chemicals , if allowed to come into contact with the urethral mucous membrane , which is very sensitive , may set up an irritative urethritis . |
4 | We could also set up an effect-to-cause study in which we match two groups for which the response measurements differ and look to see if they also differ in some previous X-type phenomenon . |
5 | Another new instrument that the Commission will be considering next year is a revised draft of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture , which would set up an international system of visits to places of detention , aimed at preventing torture and ill-treatment . |
6 | You can set up an intermediate camp , then bring more supplies across by caravan . |
7 | Prior to running LIFESPAN ABLE , the user must set up an empty directory ( the primary directory ) and copy all modules to be entered into LIFESPAN to this directory . |
8 | It should not be assumed that there will never be circumstances when , notwithstanding the new CGT rules , someone domiciled and resident in the UK should set up an offshore trust . |
9 | Mr Smith may set up an overseas trust for the benefit of his three minor unmarried grandchildren A , B and C , giving them life interests in the fund provided that if all the trusts should fail the funds should go to the child of Mr Smith ( ie Master Smith ) , the parent of A , B and C. £100 may be settled and this may be used to purchase 50 per cent of the shares in an anticipated profitable company to be set up by Master Smith . |
10 | Mr Smith may set up an overseas trust for the benefit of his grandchildren . |
11 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
12 | But I could n't set up an ideal control system . |
13 | ‘ We would like the Community to work towards a simple document — a European Record of Achievement — which would set out an individual jobseeker 's qualifications and experience in a way which could be recognised easily by employers in other countries . ’ |