Example sentences of "be set [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 2 | No doubt , following the local government commission which will be set up under the new Bill , that system will continue , where appropriate — but only where clearly appropriate . |
| 3 | A single agency to control all forms of pollution in Scotland is to be set up over the next three years . |
| 4 | Because of a logjam in Government legislation , the bill will be set up through the private member 's procedure by the Conservative MP for Ayr , Phil Gallie . |
| 5 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 6 | I have founded my judgment upon the grounds which I have already expressed , but I do not wish to be understood as thereby negativing the proposition that a defence might be set up on the alternative basis mentioned by Willes J. In my opinion this appeal should be allowed . |
| 7 | It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows . |
| 8 | The main finishing dais will be set up on the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 9 | Here altars would be set up within the charnel and the priest would sing the mass in the company of a silent and skeletal congregation — or bits of them , depending on how much had been retrieved from the disturbed graves . |
| 10 | He is currently working on a project for an additional 125 aid centres to be set up within the next three years . |
| 11 | A NEW unit is to be set up by the Multiple Sclerosis Society which will devote its time to research into MS , a disease of the nervous system . |
| 12 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 13 | So ad hoc multi-council boards , run by officials accountable to nobody in particular , had to be set up in the metropolitan areas after 1985 . |
| 14 | But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ . |
| 15 | The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform . |
| 16 | If the source of the sound is standing on a solid object , like a radio on a table , or a washing machine on a floor , the vibrations will be set up in the solid object , and will travel along it , carrying the noise through to the next room , and even to the next house . |
| 17 | A full-time pressure group is likely to be set up in the new year . |
| 18 | Special local/central government ‘ partnerships ’ were to be set up in the larger cities to supervise the implementation of programmes . |
| 19 | Canada 's first grizzly bear reserve is to be set up in the Khutzeymateen area of British Columbia ( BC ) ; logging and hunting will be banned in the reserve . |
| 20 | The corporation agreed , and even paid £200 so that the new shops would be set back from the previous building line . |
| 21 | A small table might be set out for the three bears ' breakfast with three sizes of chair , bowl and so on , together with three sizes of bear for the children to play with . |
| 22 | The detailed sale procedures may either be set out in the covering letter to the information memorandum or as a section of the information memorandum . |
| 23 | Obviously this would only be of benefit if there were capital gains against which the loss can be set off in the current or future years . |
| 24 | Though in itself fairly insensitive under normal conditions it had to be set off by the early , very sensitive , mercury-fulminate detonator which was fired by safety fuze . |