Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 . |
| 2 | The three partners set up the Viscose Syndicate in 1893 , with the aim of producing adhesives , films , coatings for natural fibres , and mouldings , and British Viscoid Ltd. followed in 1896 . |
| 3 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 4 | Sch 6 to the 1992 regulations sets out the information in respect of associated bodies that must be included in the notes to societies ' accounts . |
| 5 | The conservative think-tanks set about the prevailing wisdom on welfare policy at home , detente with Russia abroad . |